The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Stan Smith
SeriesCambridge Companions to Literature
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
Literary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - poetry and poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780521829625
ClassificationsDewey:828.91209 821.912
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 13 January 2005
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 new and established 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.

Author Biography

Stan Smith is Research Professor in Literary Studies at the Nottingham Trent University.

Reviews

'For any student of Auden's writings or anyone interested in him as a man, this collection will prove essential reading.' Contemporary Review '... the book should be on the shelves of all libraries collecting in the areas of Anglo-American relations, literature, drama, and 20th century social and political history.' Reference Reviews