W. H. Auden

Auden, W. H. - (Wystan Hugh Auden)ôˈdən, 1907–73, Anglo-American poet, b. York, England, educated at Oxford. A versatile, vigorous, and technically skilled poet, Auden ranks among the major literary figures of the 20th cent. Often written in everyday language, his poetry ranges in subject matter from politics to modern psychology to Christianity. During the 1930s he Read More...

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W.H. Auden: The Critical Heritage
by John Haffenden. 536 pgs.

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This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

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General Editor's Preface

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on the Selection and Text

Introduction

Abbreviations

'Paid on Both Sides: a Charade': 'Paid on Both Sides: a Charade'

1: William Empson on Defining the Attitude of a Generation 'Experiment' (cambridge)

'Poems': 'Poems'

2: Naomi Mitchison Advertises a New Generation, 'Weekend Review'

3: Dilys Powell, from a Review on New Poetry, 'sunday Times'

4: Michael Roberts on an Approach to Integration, 'Adelphi'

5: Louis Macneice on 'Up-To-Date' Auden, Untitled Review, 'Oxford Outlook'

6: F. R. Leavis on Chaos and Defeat, in Poetry and Disintegration, 'times Literary Supplement'

7: M. D. Zabel on Auden's Certain Poetic Gifts, from a Dawn in Britain, 'Poetry'

8: Dudley Fitts, to Karthage Then I Came…, 'Hound and Horn'

'the Orators': 'the Orators'

9: William Plomer on Auden's 'Vigorous Attack', 'sunday Referee'

10: Alan Pryce-Jones Puzzles Over Meaning, from a Poetry Chronicle, 'London Mercury'

11: A. C. Brock on Medium Before Meaning, Unsigned Review, 'times Literary Supplement'

12: F. R. Leavis, from an Unsigned Review, 'Listener'

13: Stephen Spender Explicates the Early Auden, 'twentieth Century' (promethean Society)

14: Geoffrey Grigson, the Poet and the Enemy, 'saturday Review'

15: Michael Roberts, Untitled Review, 'Adelphi'

16: Bonamy DobrÉe, Provisional Praise, 'spectator'

17: John Hayward on Obscurity and Stimulus, Untitled Review, 'Criterion'

18: Graham Greene on Auden's Virtuosity, Three Poets, 'Oxford Magazine'

19: Hugh Gordon Porteus on Value and Influence, 'twentieth Century' (promethean Society)

20: Henry Bamford Parkes, an Expatriate View, 'symposium'

21: John Gould Fletcher on a Poet of Courage, 'Poetry' (chicago)

22: Robert Penn Warren on the English 'Poetical Renascence', from Twelve Poets, 'American Review'

23: Stephen Spender on Psychology and Revolution

An Uncompleted 'Epic': An Uncompleted 'Epic'

24: Harold Nicolson on Auden's Derision and Integrity

'the Witnesses': 'the Witnesses'

25: T. S. Eliot on Auden, from a Report on Poems Published in the 'Listener', 1931-3

26: F. R. Leavis Replies to William Empson, from Auden, Bottrall, and Others, 'scrutiny'

'Poems', Second Edition: 'Poems', Second Edition

27: John Pudney, from Poetry and Satire, 'Week-End Review'

28: D. G. Bridson Awaiting the Fulfilment of Promise, 'New English Weekly'

29: C. Day-Lewis on the Dangers of Dilettantism

30: A. Desmond Hawkins on Auden's Dramatic Dynamite, 'New English Weekly'

B. the Productions

31: Michael Sayers, Theatre at Last!, 'New English Weekly'

32: A. L. Morton on the Death of a Class, 'Daily Worker'

33: Harold Hobson Applauds a Pioneer, 'Christian Science Monitor'

34: Ashley Dukes Predicts a Poet's Theatre, 'theatre Arts Monthly'

35: James Burnham on Change and Reorientation, 'Nation'

'Poems', American Edition: 'Poems', American Edition

36: Ruth Lechlitner, New Poets Heard in England, 'New York Herald Tribune'

37: Malcolm Cowley on Embattled Parables, from Spender and Auden, 'New Republic'

38: I. M. Parsons on 'A Half-Baked Little Satire', 'spectator'

39: A. L. Morton, Shocked Satirists, 'Daily Worker'

40: Montagu Slater, Two Reviews in 'Left Review'

41: Louise Bogan on the Conviction and Charity of a Good Play, 'New Republic'

42: John Lehmann on a Career in Progress, 'International Literature'

43: Derek Verschoyle on an Unconstructive Talent, 'spectator'

44: Cyril Connolly, Reluctantly Deploring Popularization, 'New Statesman and Nation'

45: E. M. Forster on Focusing 'the Ascent of F6', Chormopuloda, 'Listener'

46: Stephen Spender on Disappointing Simplifications, from Fable and Reportage, 'Left Review'

47: Ben Belitt on 'Farce for the Salon', from Rugby and the Tragic Muse, 'Nation'

48: Wyndham Lewis on 'Marxian Playboys', from 'Blasting and Bombardiering'

49: Stephen Spender, the Poetic Dramas of W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, 'New Writing'

50: A. R. Humphreys on Vitality and Confusion, 'Cambridge Review'

51: G. W. Stonier on a Successful Revival, 'New Statesman and Nation'

'Look, Stranger!': 'Look, Stranger!'

52: Dilys Powell on the Poems and the Play

53: Gavin Ewart on the Unaccommodating Play and the Powerful Poems, Untitled Reviews, 'University Forward'

54: F. R. Leavis on Irresponsible Immaturity, Mr. Auden's Talent, 'scrutiny'

55: C. Day-Lewis on a Classic or a Curiosity, Paging Mankind, 'Poetry'

56: Janet Adam Smith on Complex Accuracy, 'Criterion'

57: Edmund Wilson Regrets the Retrograde, the Oxford Boys Becalmed, 'New Republic'

58: C. Day-Lewis, Unsigned Review, 'Listener'

'spain': 'spain'

59: Richard Goodman Foresees True Revolutionary Poetry, from Perspectives for Poetry, 'Daily Worker'

60: Cyril Connolly, from To-Day the Struggle, 'New Statesman and Nation'

61: Edward Sackville-West on Being Mainly Amused, 'New Statesman and Nation'

'Letters from Iceland': Letters from Iceland

62: Unsigned Review, Cooling Waters, 'times Literary Supplement'

63: Michael Roberts on Useful Entertainment, Poets on Holiday, 'London Mercury'

64: Edwin Muir, Untitled Review, 'Criterion'

From Auden Double Number: From Auden Double Number

65: Christopher Isherwood, Some Notes on Auden's Early Poetry

66: Stephen Spender, Oxford to Communism

67: Louis Macneice, Letter to W. H. Auden

68: Geoffrey Grigson, Auden as a Monster

69: Kenneth Allott, Auden in the Theatre

70: Edgell Rickword, Auden and Politics

71: Twelve Comments on Auden

'On the Frontier': 'On the Frontier'

72: Unsigned Review, a Poetic Drama of To-Day, 'times Literary Supplement'

73: Kingsley Martin on Honest, Outspoken Topicality, 'New Statesman and Nation'

74: C. Day-Lewis on Unsuccessful Sincerity, Unsigned Review, 'Listener'

75: Julian Symons Reviews the Dramatic Canon, 'Life and Letters Today'

76: Evelyn Waugh on a Pantomime Appearance, Mr. Isherwood and Friend, 'spectator'

'Journey to a War': 'Journey to a War'

77: Randall Swingler on Being Uninvolved, Two Intellectuals in China, 'Daily Worker'

78: William Plomer, Untitled Review, 'London Mercury'

79: Geoffrey Grigson on Humane and Powerful Poetry, Twenty-Seven Sonnets, 'New Verse'

80: Lincoln Kirstein on the Greatest Poetry of Our Speech, Poets Under Fire, 'Nation'

81: Michael Roberts on a Failure to Affirm, Not This Time?, 'spectator'

'Another Time': 'Another Time'

82: T. C. Worsley on Understanding the Life of Our Day, Major Poet, 'New Statesman and Nation'

83: William Empson on Simplifying the Machinery, Untitled Review, 'Life and Letters Today'

84: Malcolm Cowley on the Idea of Guilt, Auden in America, 'New Republic'

'the Double Man': 'the Double Man'

85: Randall Jarrell on a Limited Success, 'Nation'

86: Babette Deutsch on Auden's Analytic Ethics, 'sirs, What Must I Do to Be Saved?', 'Poetry'

87: Herbert Read on Misuse of Form, Hudibrasticks, 'spectator'

88: Charles Williams on Life and Mr. Auden, Untitled Review, 'Dublin Review'

89: Raymond Winkler, Mr Auden's Weltanschauung, 'scrutiny'

'For the Time Being': 'For the Time Being'

90: Mark Schorer on Auden's Beautiful Flights, 'New York Times'

91: Harry Levin, Through the Looking Glass, 'New Republic'

92: Desmond Maccarthy, Beauty and Bugbear, 'sunday Times'

93: Hugh Kingsmill on Auden's Self-Consciousness, Occluded Pastures, 'New English Review'

94: Stephen Spender on Argument or Experience, Auden, 'time and Tide'

95: R. G. Lienhardt, Auden's Inverted Development, 'scrutiny'

The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden': The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden'

96: F. Cudworth Flint Reviews 'An Agile Intelligence', 'New York Times'

97: Louise Bogan, Untitled Review, 'New Yorker'

98: John Van Druten, He Bridged the Atlantic, 'Kenyon Review'

99: M. L. Rosenthal, Speaking Greatly in an Age of Confusion, 'New York Herald Tribune'

'the Age of Anxiety': 'the Age of Anxiety'

100: Jacques Barzun on a Philosophical Poem, 'Harper's Magazine'

101: Delmore Schwartz on Auden's 'Most Self-Indulgent Book', 'Partisan Review'

102: Giles Romilly, the Age of Despair, 'New Statesman and Nation'

103: Patric Dickinson, Untitled Review, 'Horizon'

'Collected Shorter Poems, 1930-1944': 'Collected Shorter Poems, 1930-1944'

104: George D. Painter, Letters from Wasteland, 'Listener'

'Nones': 'Nones'

105: G. S. Fraser, the Cheerful Eschatologist, 'New Statesman and Nation'

106: Robin Mayhead, the Latest Auden, 'scrutiny'

107: Unsigned Review, Diverse Occasions, 'times Literary Supplement'

108: Karl Shapiro, W. H. Auden Versus…, 'New York Times'

'the Shield of Achilles': 'the Shield of Achilles'

109: Horace Gregory, Auden's New Poems Invoke Echoes of Don Giovanni, 'New York Herald Tribune'

110: Randall Jarrell on Mitigated Triumphs, 'Yale Review'

111: Donald Davie on Auden's Playfulness, from an Untitled Review, 'shenandoah'

112: Anthony Hartley on Auden's Total Cosmos, 'spectator'

113: Edmund Wilson, W. H. Auden in America, 'New Statesman and Nation'

'Homage to Clio': 'Homage to Clio'

114: Donald Hall, Dry Farming, 'New Statesman'

115: Philip Larkin, What's Become of Wystan?, 'spectator'

116: Graham Hough on Talented Glibness, from an Untitled Review, 'Listener'

117: Thom Gunn on Auden's Tired Mannerisms, from Manner and Mannerism, 'Yale Review'

'About the House': 'About the House'

118: John Updike on Auden's Humanistic Relaxation, Untitled Review, 'Motive'

119: C. B. Cox, at Home with Auden, 'spectator'

120: Christopher Ricks, Winking, 'New Statesman'

121: Unsigned Review, Well Bred, 'times Literary Supplement'

122: John Carey on a Savour of Dereliction, 'New Statesman'

'Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957': 'Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957'

123: John Whitehead, Vin Audenaire, 'Essays in Criticism'

'Collected Longer Poems': 'Collected Longer Poems'

124: Richard Mayne, Choric Oracular Uncle, 'New Statesman'

125: Jeremy Robson, Auden's Longer Poems, 'Encounter'

'City Without Walls': 'City Without Walls'

126: John Bayley, Halcyon Structures, 'Listener'

127: John Fletcher on Classical Simplicity and Directness, 'spectator'

128: Monroe K. Spears, a Sabine Farm Near Kirchstetten, 'Yale Review'

129: Frank Kermode, Faithing and Blithing, 'Listener'

'Epistle to a Godson': 'Epistle to a Godson'

130: Clive James, Unsigned Review, a Testament to Self-Control, 'times Literary Supplement'

131: Denis Donoghue, Good Grief, 'New York Review of Books'

'thank You, Fog': 'thank You, Fog'

132: Philip Toynbee, Goodbye to Auden, 'Observer'

133: John Fuller, Footnotes, 'New Review'

134: Seamus Heaney, Shorts for Auden, 'Hibernia'

'Collected Poems': 'Collected Poems'

135: Irvin Ehrenpreis, Inside Auden's Landscape, 'New York Review of Books'

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Index
2 .

The Poetry of W. H. Auden: The Disenchanted Island (literary criticism)
by Monroe K. Spears. 400 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

1907-1932

I: Fantasy and Diagnosis

Notes to Section I

1933-1940

II: The Thirties

Notes to Section II

1941-1947

III: Religion and Longer Poems

1948-1962

IV: Operas, Criticism, and Rites of Homage

Conclusion (For the Time Being)

Notes to Section IV

Appendix

Index
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Collected Shorter Poems, 1930-1944
by W. H. Auden. 303 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

Part One: Poems

Part Two: Paid on Both Sides

Part Three: Songs and Other Musical Pieces

Part Four: In Time of War

Index
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Look, Stranger!
by W. H. Auden. 70 pgs.

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I. Prologue

Ii (to Geoffrey Hoyland)

III

Iv. Song

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

XIII

XIV

XV

XVI

XVII

XVIII

XIX

XX

XXI

Xxii. Two Songs (for Benjamin Britten)

XXIII

XXIV

Xxv. Casino

XXVI

XXVII

XXVIII

Xxx (to Christopher Lsherwood)

Xxxi. Epilogue
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On the Frontier: A Melodrama in Three Acts
by W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood. 128 pgs.

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Characters

Notes on the Characters

Scenes

Act One

Scene I

Scene II

Act Two

Scene I

Scene II

Act Three

Scene I

Scene II

Scene III
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The Dog Beneath the Skin, or, Where Is Francis?
by W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood. 161 pgs.

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Dramatis Personae

Scene I

Act One

Scene II

Scene III

Scene IV

Scene V

Act Two

Scene I

Scene II

Scene III

Scene IV

Scene V

Act Three

Scene I

Scene II

Scene III

Scene IV

Scene V

Epilogue
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The Enchafaed Flood, or, The Romantic Iconography of the Sea
by W. H. Auden. 160 pgs.

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Acknowledgment

Contents

One the Sea and the Desert

Two the Stone and the Shell

Three Ishmael--Don Quixote
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In Solitude, for Company: W. H. Auden after 1940: Unpublished Prose and Recent Criticism
by Katherine Bucknell, Nicholas Jenkins. 342 pgs.

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The third volume of Auden Studies focuses on the later career of this major poet and intellectual, and includes a great deal of previously unpublished prose by him, as well as a selection from his letters. The writings demonstrate the scope of his intellect, which ranged easily from psychoanalysis to theology, archaeology to politics. Each piece is annotated and introduced by an Auden specialist, several of whom also contribute to a symposium, included here, on Auden's great poem "In Praise of Limestone."

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Preface

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CONTENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

Vocation and Society (1943)

Vocation and Society

Some Letters from Auden to James and Tania Stern

The Fall of Rome (1966)

The Fall of Rome

Phantasy and Reality in Poetry (1971)

Phantasy and Reality in Poetry

Auden in Kirchstetten

Appendix 1 Neulengbach Speech

'For the Time Being': a Relocation of the Poet

'In Praise of Limestone': A Symposium

'Flouting Papa': Randall Jarrell and W. H. Auden

Appendix: Jarrell's Articles on Auden

Published Letters by W. H. Auden: A Bibliography

ADDENDUM TO AUDEN STUDIES 2

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX
9 .

The Mentor Book of Major American Poets: From Edward Taylor and Walt Whitman to Hart Crane and W. H. Auden ("W. H. Auden (b. 1907)" begins on p. 507)
by Oscar Williams, Edwin Honig. 510 pgs.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND COPYRIGHT NOTICES

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Edward Taylor (1645-1729)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

Robert Frost (b. 1874)

Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

William Carlos Williams (b. 1883)

Ezra Pound (b. 1885)

Marianne Moore (B. 1887)

John Crowe Ransom (b. 1888)

Edna St. Vincent Milla (1892-1950)

Archibald Macleish (b. 1892)

E. E. Cummings (b. 1894)

Hart Crane (1899-1932)

W. H. Auden (b. 1907)

NOTES ON THE POETS

INDEX

ABOUT THE EDITORS
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Auden's Games of Knowledge: Poetry and the Meanings of Homosexuality
by Richard R. Bozorth. 340 pgs.

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The first full-length consideration of Auden as a homosexual poet, this volume shows that Auden's career was tied to a process of gay self-interrogation unparalleled in modern poetry and argues that he was driven by a powerful yearning to comprehend the psychological, political, and ethical implications of same-sex desire. Auden's theories about poetry in the 1930s and after reflected an intense concern with how to write publicly as a homosexual poet. That struggle was made manifest in his love poetry, which Bozorth argues constitutes a kind of "erotic autobiography" exploring the distinct challenges of homosexual love. Bozorth's approach is manifold, examining the poet's engagements with avant-garde poetics, gay subculture, psychoanalysis, leftist politics, and theology. This book proposes that from his early fascination with secret agent and trickster figures to his later theories of poetry as an I-Thou relation, Auden viewed poetry as a fictional but primal erotic encounter with the reader.

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Aude's Games of Knowledge: Poetry and the Meanings of Homosexuality

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Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Auden's Games of Knowledge

Introduction

Chapter 1: But Who Would Get It?: Sexual Politics and Coterie Poetry

Chapter 2: The Question is What Do We Mean by Sex: Diagnosis and Disorder

Chapter 3: Have You Heard This One?: Queer Revolution in Paid on Both Sides and the Orators

Chapter 4: What We See Depends on Who's Observing: Politics and Authority in the 1930s

Chapter 5: Tell Me the Truth about Love: Confessional Lyric and Lovers' Discourse

Chapter 6: Just What Appearances He Saves: God and the Unspeakable

Afterword: Auden's Biases—and Ours

Notes

Work Cited

Index of Auden's Poem Titles and First Lines

Index of Subjects

Copyright Acknowledgments
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The Romantic Survival: A Study in Poetic Evolution (Chap. XI "W. H. Auden")
by John Bayley. 231 pgs.

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Acknowledgements

Part One The Romantic Dilemmas

Chapter I Annex or Survive?

Chapter II Prose or Poetry

Chapter III Romance or Reality?

Chapter IV The World or the Mind?

Chapter V Romantic or Classic?

Chapter VI Organisation or Dispossession?

Chapter VII Ghost or Machine?

Part Two The Romantic Survival

Chapter VIII W. B. Yeats

Chapter IX W. H. Auden

Chapter X Dylan Thomas

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Lectures on Some Modern Poets ("Poetic Drama in General and Auden and Isherwood in Particular" begins on p. 43)
by Beekman W. Cottrell, Dorothy W. Goodfellow, Margaret Foster Leclair, A. Fred Sochatoff, Erwin R. Steinberg. 92 pgs.

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Foreword

Hart Crane Poet of the Machine Age

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poetic Drama in General And Auden and Isher Wood In Particular

The Use of Verse in the Drama Of T. S. Eliot

Dylan Thomas "The Boy of Summer"
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In Defense of Ignorance ("The Retreat of W. H. Auden" begins on p. 115)
by Karl Shapiro. 338 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Contents

To the Reader

The Critic In Spite of Himself

T. S. Eliot: the Death Of Literary Judgment

Ezra Pound: the Scapegoat Of Modern Poetry

W. B. Yeats: Trial By Culture

The Retreat of W. H. Auden

William Carlos Williams: The True Contemporary

Dylan Thomas

The First White Aboriginal

The Jewish Writer In America

Poets and Psychologists

The Unemployed Magician

What is Not Poetry?

Poets of the Cosmic Consciousness

The Greatest Living Author

About the Author
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The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English ("Auden, W(ystan) H(ugh) (1907-73)" begins on p. 21)
by Ian Hamilton. 606 pgs.

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The first and only comprehensive work of its kind, The Companion to Twentieth Century Poety in English charts the development of poetry from 1900 to the present, across the whole of the English-speaking world, from the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland to New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Trinidad and Zimbabwe--anywhere where poets write in English. Alphabetically arranged for ease of reference, it offers biographical entries on some 1,500 individual poets, as well as over one hundred entries covering important magazines, movements, literary terms and concepts. As readable as it is comprehensive, the Companion offers a fascinating survey of this century's shift from 'poetry' to 'poetries,' as American and British traditions of poetry have made way for a growing diversity of voices, and as the burgeoning poetries of Australia, Canada, and other English-speaking countries assert their own identities. The range of poets represented in this Companion is extraordinary. Here are in-depth discussions of Yeats, Eliot, Pound, and Joyce alongside provocative assessments of W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, and Marianne Moore. John Ashbery, Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou, and Mary Oliver are accounted for, as well as Carolyn Forche, David Bottoms, Jorie Graham, and many other younger poets just coming into prominence. Chinua Achebee, Jack Mapanje, Femi Oyebode and other important African poets writing in English are here, as well as poets from the Caribbean, India, and even Russia. Readers will relish this Companion's many insightful contributions from celebrated poet-critics, writing on other poets in intriguing author-subject combinations. For example, Seamus Heaney writes on Robert Lowell ("Lowell had invented a way of getting at life, of making poetry kick and freak at the edge of contemporary reality"), Ann Stevenson discusses Sylvia Plath ("In the quarter-century following her suicide, Sylvia Plath has become a heroine and martyr of the feminist movement. In fact, she was a martyr mainly to the recurrent psychodrama that staged itself within the bell jar of her tragically wounded personality"), and Tom Paulin weighs in on Ted Hughes ("His appointment as Poet Laureate in 1984 sealed his essentially shaman-like conception of his poetic mission and enabled him to speak out on environmental issues while celebrating royal weddings and babies"). Other pairings include Jay Parini on Wallace Stevens, Jon Stallworthy on Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brook, and William H. Pritchard on Robert Frost and Randall Jarrell. Each entry includes a wealth of biographical and bibliographical information, and a select bibliography at the end of the book supplies a handy source of information on poets whose work is not otherwise in print, or readily available to readers. From Abse and Auden to Zaturenska and Zukofsky, The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English is an essential reference for students, lovers of poetry, and for poets themselves.

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Selection of Anthologies

Key to Contributors

Alphabetical List of Contributors

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B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

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P

Q

R

S

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W. H. Auden: Contexts for Poetry
by Peter Edgerly Firchow. 274 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Early Auden

1: Crossing Frontiers

2: The Group, the Leader, and the Orators

3: Poetry and Politics in a Low, Dishonest Decade

4: The American Auden

5: The Sage of Kirchstetten

Appendix: Auden in Austria

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden
by Randall Jarrell, Stephen Burt, Hannah Brooks-Motl. 180 pgs.

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Foreword

Introduction

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

Lecture 5

Lecture 6

Notes

Index

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