W. H. Auden - A Biography

Informationen zum Autor Humphrey Carpenter was born and educated in Oxford! and attended the Dragon School and Keble College. He was a well-known biographer and children's writer! and worked previously as a producer at the BBC. He wrote biographies of J. R. R. Tolkien! W. H. Auden! Benjamin Britten! Ezra Pound! C. S. Lewis and Dennis Potter. Among his many books for children were the best-selling Mr Majeika series. He also wrote several plays for the theatre and radio. A keen musician! he was a member of a 1930s-style jazz band! Vile Bodies! which was resident at the Ritz Hotel in London for a number of years. He died in 2005. Klappentext Summarizes Auden's ambiguity: 'Here! as so often in his life! Auden adopted a dogmatic attitude which did not reflect the full range of his opinions! and which he sometimes flatly contradicted.' Zusammenfassung Summarizes Auden's ambiguity: 'Here, as so often in his life, Auden adopted a dogmatic attitude which did not reflect the full range of his opinions, and which he sometimes flatly contradicted.'

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Humphrey Carpenter

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• Autori: Humphrey Carpenter, Carpenter Humphrey
• Con la collaborazione di: Humphrey Carpenter (Editore)
• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.02.2010
• EAN: 9780571260096
• ISBN: 978-0-571-26009-6
• Pagine: 536
• Dimensioni: 135 mm x 216 mm x 39 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Capolavori fino al 1945; Saggistica > Arte, letteratura > Biografie, autobiografie