The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Stan Smith (PDF)

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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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⭐Some great, great essays (19) here on every aspect of Auden’s life and career & writing though as usual quite a few of the essayists lapse into anecdotal style (v. frustrating for those of us interested purely in language). You won’t find much post-modern musings in here but you will find a host of sensible commentaries as befits Cambridge UP.Certainly worth the money. I found the essay on theory a bit thin particularly as John Boly’s own book on Auden’s poetry is a rave. Rainer Emig features and he too has a book, Toward a Postmodern Poetics, which is very interesting, provocative and moves away from some of the orthodox views of Auden. -Sorry, but so many books purporting to be about Auden’s poetry lapse into sly portraits of his life fine if you like that kind of thing (see John G. Blair on “the major failing” of Auden criticism.).Anyway, these essays are value for money, quite detailed, pointing in all kinds of directions. You will not find a better series of introductory essays though ed. George Bahlke’s essays (1991), featuring some of the (then) leading lights of Auden Studies, might be a good companion purchase, if it is still in print.

⭐This book consists of a series of very readable introductory essays to Auden’s life and work, most of which are quite detailed, and written by notable Auden scholars. It will not disappoint. A dozen or so pages, each devoted to Auden’s verse, his prose, the American Auden, the English Auden, the European Auden, and so on; it is the best introduction anyone might hope for, particularly if you are a student. It is also a showpiece edition, and tends to avoid such issues as Auden’s problematic early critical reception, the fact that Auden’s early experimental poetry remains glossed over (see John Boly) but these are perhaps less faults than they are issues of editorial selection. Paul Hendon’s ‘The Poetry of ~~’ will augment these ‘omissions’ nicely. Those looking to understand Auden and modern literary theory should read Rainer Emig or John Boly’s other works on Auden (as this volume is a general introduction).Edward Mendelson’s books on Auden, Humphrey Carpenter’s biography and Auden’s 4 volumes of prose writings are all wonderful, readable accounts of Auden’s life and work. Fuller’s Commentary is an essential guide to some of the less accessible poems but doesn’t supply a narrative and so acts as a reference work only. Hoggart’s book (bio) is currently (5/2012) out of print. A book on Auden’s Juvenilia is also available. Probably the biggest obstacle to selecting books BY Auden is to know which are books of poetry and which are not. This series of essays contains a bibliography which helps to sort through that conundrum. A visit to […] (home to the Auden Newsletter) will also help.260+ printed pages, 19 essays, a good Introduction by Stan Smith, a useful index, published in 2004, well worth the money.Essays by Stan Smith (Ed.), Richard Davenport Hines, Patrick Deane, Nicholas Jenkins, Stan Smith, Edward Mendelson, Tim Youngs, Christopher Innes, Tony Sharpe, Peter Porter, John R. Boly, John Lucas, Rod Mengham, Richard Bozorth, Gareth Reeves, Paola Marchetti, Rainer Emig, Ian Sansom, and Nadia Herman Colburn.

⭐Great book and arrived on time

⭐Excellent.

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