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W.H. Auden: a Commentary

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Description for W.H. Auden: a Commentary Paperback. Serves as a reference work dealing with all of Auden's writings. For every poem, play or libretto, this work encapsulates the publishing history, paraphrases difficult passages, explains allusions, points out interesting variants, identifies sources and influences, looks at the verse form and offers critical interpretation. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 48. Weight in Grams: 848.

Now available for the first time in paperback, John Fuller's Commentary is a compendious yet condensed reference work dealing with all of Auden's writings. For every poem, play or libretto, Fuller encapsulates the publishing history, paraphrases difficult passages, explains allusions, points out interesting variants (including material abandoned in drafts), identifies sources and influences, looks at the verse form and offers critical interpretation. Auden's formal and intellectual range challenges comparison with Eliot or Yeats, and his particular interests - psychological, anthropological, prosodic, theological, historical - lend an added resonance to the texture of his work, all of which is explored and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571192724
SKU
9780571192724
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About John Fuller
John Fuller was educated at New College, Oxford, and was formerly a Fellow and tutor in English at Magdalen College. An award-winning novelist, he has also published five poetry collections; Epistles to Several Persons (1973), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1974, The Illusionists (1980), Stones and Fires (1996), winner of the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Poetry ... Read more

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