Year: 1996
Author: R. Davenport-Hines
Genre: monograph
Publisher: Minerva
ISBN: 0-7493-9648-2
English language
Format:PDF
Number of pages: 406

Auden saw himself as a wanderer. This book is devoted to the difficult life of this traveler, written in the genre of literary biography.

Contents 1
Prologue: 'What goal but the black stone?' 1
1 'A typical little highbrow and difficult child' 6
2 'I knew that very moment what I wished to do' 34
3 'I mean to be a great poet' 51
4 'I'm king of Berlin' 87
5 'To love; to be loved; to be a teacher; to be a pupil' 115
6 'The cold controlled ferocity of the human species' 146
7 'Mr Right has come into my life' 182
8 'Disgraces to keep hidden from the world' 228
9 'I was glad I could be unhappy' 265
10 'And I, submissive, felt unwanted and went out' 307
Epilogue: 'God may reduce you on Judgment Day ' 342
Acknowledgments 347
Abbreviations used in source notes 349
Sources 353
Index 393

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