Selected Poems

ISBN-13: 9780571241538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 376 str.

W Auden

Opis

Edward Mendelson has significantly expanded his authoritative, chronological ordered edition of 'Selected Poems', adding 20 items to the 100 in the original edition, & broadening the focus to reflect the wealth of forms, the rhetorical & tonal range, & the variousness of content in Auden's poetry, in the confines of one volume.

O autorze

Auden, W.H.W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907 and brought up in Birmingham. His first book, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber in 1930. He went to Spain during the civil war, to Iceland (with Louis MacNeice) and later travelled to China. In 1939 he and Christopher Isherwood left for America, where Auden spent the next fifteen years lecturing, reviewing, writing poetry and opera librettos, and editing anthologies. He became an American citizen in 1946, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. In 1956 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and a year later went to live in Kirchstetten in Austria, after spending several summers on Ischia. He died in Vienna in 1973.