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Ian Sansom
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HarperCollins Publishers
This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry.
This is a book about a poet W. H. Auden, a wunderkind, a victim-beneficiary of a literary cult of personality who became a scapegoat and a poet-expatriate largely excluded from British literary history because he left.
About a poem 'September 1, 1939', his most famous and celebrated, yet one which he tried to rewrite and disown and which has enjoyed or been condemned to a tragic and unexpected afterlife.
About a city New York, an island, an emblem of the Future, magnificent, provisional, seamy, and in 1939 about to emerge as the defining twentieth-century cosmopolis, the capital of the world.
And about a world at a point of change about 1939, and about our own Age of Anxiety, about the aftermath of September 11, when many American newspapers reprinted Auden's poem in its entirety on their editorial pages.
Sansom's work is a top-tier exploration of the English and Irish influences on Auden's life and work, set against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving Europe. It's a journey through the 20th century, a time of turmoil and transformation, seen through the eyes of one of its most poignant figures.
For fans of Adam Macqueen (The King Of Sunlight), Matthew Hollis (The Waste Land), Alexander Mccall Smith (What W. H. Auden Can Do for You), Elizabeth Bishop (Poems), and W. H. Auden (The Age of Anxiety).
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