W.H. Auden : a Commentary

Informationen zum Autor John Fuller was educated at New College, Oxford, and was formerly a Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College. An award-winning novelist, he has also published sixteen poetry collections, the most recent of which is The Space of Joy (2006). His Collected Poems appeared in 1996. John Fuller lives in Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Klappentext Auden's formal and intellectual range challenges comparison with Eliot or Yeats, and his particular interests - psychological, anthropological, prosodic, theological, historical - lend an added resonance to the texture of his work, all of which is explored and interpreted, with exemplary lucidity, in this most essential of one-volume companions. W. H. Auden: A Commentary by John Fuller is an indispensable guide to and illumination of Auden's poetry, one of the most intricate and impressive bodies of work produced in the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung Auden's formal and intellectual range challenges comparison with Eliot or Yeats, and his particular interests - psychological, anthropological, prosodic, theological, historical - lend an added resonance to the texture of his work, all of which is explored and interpreted, with exemplary lucidity, in this most essential of one-volume companions.

Product details

• Authors: John Fuller
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.04.2007
• EAN: 9780571192724
• ISBN: 978-0-571-19272-4
• No. of pages: 640
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 235 mm x 46 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Reference works, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000