Auden by R P T Davenport-Hines

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This biography of W.H. Auden, one of the best-known English poets of the century, is not only a study of his life and ideas, but a commentary on the wars, ideologies and attitudes of his times. It argues that his life reached its pitch of intellectual integrity during the 1940s and 1950s.

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Auden by R P T Davenport-Hines

This biography of W.H. Auden, one of the best-known English poets of the century, is not only a study of his life and ideas, but a commentary on the wars, ideologies and attitudes of his times. Auden saw his life as a quest, and his journey took him from Edwardian middle-class boyhood in Birmingham and precocious poetic brilliance at Oxford in the 1920s to bold sexual and psychological experiments in Weimar Berlin and radical politics in 1930s Britain, followed by a searching self-reinvention and grave and unpopular revision of his work after settling in the USA in 1939. Davenport-Hines describes how Auden always pushed himself to surmount new tests and ordeals in his quest, and argues that his life reached its pitch of emotional excitement and intellectual integrity in the 1940s and 1950s.

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ISBN 13 9780749396480
ISBN 10 0749396482
Title Auden
Author R P T Davenport-Hines
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 1996-11-04
Number of pages 416
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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