Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-246) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction / Stan Smith -- Auden's life and character / Richard Davenport-Hines -- Auden's England / Patrick Deane -- Auden in America / Nicholas Jenkins -- The European Auden / Edward Mendelson -- Auden's travel writings / Tim Youngs -- Auden's plays and dramatic writings: theatre, film and opera / Christopher Innes -- Auden's light and serio-comic verse / Stan Smith -- Auden's prose / A.E. Sharpe -- Auden's English: language and style / Peter Porter -- Auden and modern theory / John R. Boly -- Auden's politics: power, authority and the individual / John Lucas -- Auden, psychology and society / Rod Mengham -- Auden: love, sexuality, desire / Richard R. Bozorth -- Auden and religion / Gareth Reeves -- Auden's landscapes / Paola Marchetti -- Auden and ecology / Rainer Emig -- Auden and influence / Ian Sansom -- Bibliographic essay and review of Auden studies / Nadia Herman Colburn.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W.H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century. It offers fresh perspectives on his work from new and established Auden critics, and from specialists in such diverse fields as drama, ecological and travel studies. It provides scholars, students and general readers with a comprehensive and authoritative account of Auden's life and works in clear and accessible English, and contains an extensive bibliography of writings about Auden."--Jacket.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Auden, W. H., (Wystan Hugh),1907-1973-- Criticism and interpretation
Auden, W. H., (Wystan Hugh),1907-1973.
Auden, W. H., (Wystan Hugh),1907-1973-- Critique et interprétation
Auden, W. H., (Wystan Hugh),1907-1973
Auden, W. H., (Wystan Hugh),1907-1973-- Criticism and interpretation.
Auden, Wystan H.
Auden, Wystan H., 1907-1973
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English poetry-- 20th century-- History and criticism.