September 1, 1939: W. H. Auden and the Afterlife of a Poem by Ian Sansom (Paperback, 2020)

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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.

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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.

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PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-139780007557233
eBay Product ID (ePID)25046674869

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Publication Year2020
TopicLiterature
Book TitleSeptember 1, 1939 :W. H. Auden and the Afterlife of a Poem
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
AuthorIan Sansom
FormatPaperback

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Item Height198 mm
Item Weight240 g
Item Width129 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorIan Sansom

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