The Cambridge Companion to W. H. AudenStan Smith Cambridge University Press, 13 jan 2005 This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W. H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century. The volume's contributors include a prize-winning poet, Auden's literary executor and editor, and his most recent, widely acclaimed biographer. It offers fresh perspectives on his work from Auden critics, alongside specialists from such diverse fields as drama, ecological and travel studies. It provides scholars, students and general readers with a comprehensive and authoritative account of Auden's life and works in clear and accessible English. Besides providing authoritative accounts of the key moments and dominant themes of his poetic development, the Companion examines his language, style and formal innovation, his prose and critical writing and his ideas about sexuality, religion, psychoanalysis, politics, landscape, ecology, and globalisation. It also contains a comprehensive bibliography of writings about Auden. |
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Audens life and character | 15 |
Audens England | 25 |
Auden in America | 39 |
The European Auden | 55 |
Audens travel writings | 68 |
theatre film and opera | 82 |
Audens light and seriocomic verse | 96 |
power authority and the individual | 152 |
Auden psychology and society | 165 |
love sexuality desire | 175 |
Auden and religion | 188 |
Audens landscapes | 200 |
Auden and ecology | 212 |
Auden and influence | 226 |
Bibliographic essay and review of Auden studies | 240 |
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