The Dyer's Hand

Informationen zum Autor W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907 and brought up in Birmingham. His first book, Poems , was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber in 1930. He went to Spain during the civil war, to Iceland (with Louis MacNeice) and later travelled to China. In 1939 he and Christopher Isherwood left for America, where Auden spent the next fifteen years lecturing, reviewing, writing poetry and opera librettos, and editing anthologies. He became an American citizen in 1946, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. In 1956 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and a year later went to live in Kirchstetten in Austria, after spending several summers on Ischia. He died in Vienna in 1973. Klappentext In the early 1950s the author began planning a prose volume that would bring together some of his published essays, lectures, and reviews, together with freshly-written notes and aphorisms. This book combines earlier material with revised versions of many of his Oxford lectures. The Dyer's Hand is the best of W. H. Auden's critical writings, chosen by himself, including his famous lectures as Professor Poetry at Oxford. Zusammenfassung In the early 1950s the author began planning a prose volume that would bring together some of his published essays, lectures, and reviews, together with freshly-written notes and aphorisms. This book combines earlier material with revised versions of many of his Oxford lectures.

Product details

• Authors: W H Auden, W. H. Auden, W.H. Auden, AUDEN W H
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.02.2013
• EAN: 9780571283507
• ISBN: 978-0-571-28350-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 218 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary essays, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets