This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry.
This is a book about a poet - W. H. Auden, a wunderkind, a victim-beneficiary of a literary cult of personality who became a scapegoat and a poet-expatriate largely excluded from British literary history because he left.
About a poem - 'September 1, 1939', his most famous and celebrated, yet one which he tried to rewrite and disown and which has enjoyed - or been condemned - to a tragic and unexpected afterlife.
About a city - New York, an island, an emblem of the Future, magnificent, provisional, seamy, and in 1939 about to emerge as the defining twentieth-century cosmopolis, the capital of the world.
And about a world at a point of change - about 1939, and about our own Age of Anxiety, about the aftermath of September 11, when many American newspapers reprinted Auden's poem in its entirety on their editorial pages.
| ISBN: | 9780007557233 |
| Publication date: | 20th August 2020 |
| Author: | Ian Sansom |
| Publisher: | 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 341 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets Biography: writers Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: poetry and poets Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) |
This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry.This is a book about a poet - W.
September 1, 1939 features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets, Biography: writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
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September 1, 1939 was written by Ian Sansom and published by 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
September 1, 1939 has 341 pages
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