
W. H. Auden: 'The Language of Learning and the Language of Love'
Uncollected Writings, New Interpretations
Clarendon Press
Published on 1. December 1994
Book
Hardback
302 pages
978-0-19-812257-9 (ISBN)
Description
The second volume in the Auden Studies Series, The Language of Learning and the Language of Love considers Auden primarily during the first decade of his literary career as a public figure as well as private man. It includes previously unpublished poems, prose, and letters by Auden - each with a scholarly introduction and full annotation - which reveal how the well-known poet, teacher, dramatist, and sage battled with his literary ancestors, experienced love, and devised a rhetoric to express both homosexual feelings and artistic impulses.
Contributions to this volume include poems, songs, and a piece of early travel writing introduced by Auden's new biographer, the historian Richard Davenport-Hines. Lyrics offered to Benjamin Britten as cabaret songs are presented by Donald Mitchell, Philip Reed, and Nicholas Jenkins. Also in the volume is a fascinating array of essays about Auden by leading scholars in the field, including Stan Smith and Katherine Bucknell, and the German scholar and close friend of Auden, David Luke. A further Supplement to B.C. Bloomfield's magisterial Auden Bibliography of 1972 is supplied by Edward Mendelson.
Contributions to this volume include poems, songs, and a piece of early travel writing introduced by Auden's new biographer, the historian Richard Davenport-Hines. Lyrics offered to Benjamin Britten as cabaret songs are presented by Donald Mitchell, Philip Reed, and Nicholas Jenkins. Also in the volume is a fascinating array of essays about Auden by leading scholars in the field, including Stan Smith and Katherine Bucknell, and the German scholar and close friend of Auden, David Luke. A further Supplement to B.C. Bloomfield's magisterial Auden Bibliography of 1972 is supplied by Edward Mendelson.
Reviews / Votes
this volume contains diverse kinds of scholarly material ... Like the first volume in the series, this collection will be an essential resource for all Auden scholars. * Lawrence Normand, Middlesex University, Review of English Studies, Vol. XLVIII, No. 189, Feb '97 *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
515 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-812257-9 (9780198122579)
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Co-founders of the W. H. Auden SocietyCo-founders of the W. H. Auden Society