The Poetry of Auden (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: W. H. Auden
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Christianity, Catholics or Catholic Church
Critical Evaluation:
W. H. Auden, for twenty years ranked among the best modern poets, is, like his contemporary T. S. Eliot, the product of both the English and the American traditions. Auden was raised in the industrial midlands of England and educated at Oxford during the bleak 1930’s. There he became one of a group of young poets, including C. Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, and Christopher Isherwood, who directed their writing toward a search for meaning in a world which seemed to them empty and mechanical.
Growing up during the great depression, when...
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