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For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio
W.H. Auden
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Description for For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio
Hardback. Auden's only explicitly religious long poem, a technical tour de force, and a revelatory window into the poet's personal and intellectual development. This edition includes the text of the poem and a detailed introduction that explains its themes and sets it in its proper contexts. Editor(s): Jacobs, Alan. Series: W. H. Auden: Critical Editions. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: AVGC8; AVGD; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
For the Time Being is a pivotal book in the career of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. W. H. Auden had recently moved to America, fallen in love with a young man to whom he considered himself married, rethought his entire poetic and intellectual equipment, and reclaimed the Christian faith of his childhood. Then, in short order, his relationship fell apart and his mother, to whom he was very close, died. In the midst of this period of personal crisis and intellectual remaking, he decided to write a poem about Christmas and to have it set ... Read more
For the Time Being is a pivotal book in the career of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. W. H. Auden had recently moved to America, fallen in love with a young man to whom he considered himself married, rethought his entire poetic and intellectual equipment, and reclaimed the Christian faith of his childhood. Then, in short order, his relationship fell apart and his mother, to whom he was very close, died. In the midst of this period of personal crisis and intellectual remaking, he decided to write a poem about Christmas and to have it set ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
136
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
W. H. Auden: Critical Editions
Condition
New
Weight
360g
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691158273
SKU
V9780691158273
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About W.H. Auden
Alan Jacobs is the Clyde S. Kilby Professor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois. He previously edited Auden's The Age of Anxiety for this series, and is the author of several books, including most recently The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction.
Reviews for For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio
"[Auden's] four long poems ... remain the astounding heart of his work... In For the Time Being, the most successful of these poems, [the characters] are at once participants in the Nativity story and drunken New Yorkers."
Adam Gopnik, New Yorker "Beautiful."
Mark Schorer, New York Times "For the Time Being is efficiently annotated and interestingly introduced."
Lachlan MacKinnon, Times Literary Supplement The ... Read more
Adam Gopnik, New Yorker "Beautiful."
Mark Schorer, New York Times "For the Time Being is efficiently annotated and interestingly introduced."
Lachlan MacKinnon, Times Literary Supplement The ... Read more