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The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene
Aidan Wasley
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Description for The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene
Hardback. W H Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work - it changed the course of American poetry itself. This book deals with Auden's influence on American poetry. It offers an account of Auden's dramatic impact on the younger American poets, from Allen Ginsberg to Sylvia Plath. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 534.
W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Combining a broad survey of Auden's midcentury U.S. cultural presence with an account of his dramatic impact on a wide range of younger American poets--from Allen Ginsberg to Sylvia Plath--the book offers a new history of postwar American poetry. For Auden, facing private crisis and global catastrophe, moving to the United ... Read more
W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Combining a broad survey of Auden's midcentury U.S. cultural presence with an account of his dramatic impact on a wide range of younger American poets--from Allen Ginsberg to Sylvia Plath--the book offers a new history of postwar American poetry. For Auden, facing private crisis and global catastrophe, moving to the United ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691136790
SKU
V9780691136790
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About Aidan Wasley
Aidan Wasley is associate professor of English at the University of Georgia.
Reviews for The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene
Winner of the 2012 SAMLA Studies Award, South Atlantic Modern Language Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011 "Auden's productivity and out-flung array of styles complicate Mr. Wasley's chosen task of tracking influences
and render it all the more gratifying when he unfolds some unexpected linkage. He is surely right when pointing out that no other poet of our ... Read more
and render it all the more gratifying when he unfolds some unexpected linkage. He is surely right when pointing out that no other poet of our ... Read more