Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography

Edward MendelsonPrinceton University Press • ISBN-13 978‑0691172491

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Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography

Edward MendelsonPrinceton University Press

ISBN-10: 0691172498 · ISBN-13: 978‑0691172491 · 2017

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Edward Mendelson provides an authoritative and comprehensive examination of W.H. Auden's literary evolution, tracing the poet's development from his influential early works to his complex later period. This definitive critical biography synthesizes biographical detail with rigorous textual analysis to illuminate the intellectual and stylistic shifts that defined one of the twentieth century's most significant poetic voices.

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Publisher: Princeton University Press
2017
Pages: 912Language: English

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Author: Edward Mendelson

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Inferred: 20th-Century PoetryInferred: Critical TheoryInferred: English PoetryInferred: Modernist LiteratureInferred: Oxford GroupInferred: W H AudenInferred: Poetic DevelopmentInferred: 20th-Century Literature

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Influences: T.S. Eliot, Christopher IsherwoodCornerstone of: Modernism

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