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W. H. Auden: A Commentary

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It's hard to imagine a better qualified commentator for W. H. Auden. Fuller is himself a fine poet, and spent thirty years improving on his first attempt at a companion to Auden's work: the result is judicious and inspirational

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Now available for the first time in paperback, John Fuller's Commentary is a compendious yet condensed reference work dealing with all of Auden's writings. For every poem, play or libretto, Fuller encapsulates the publishing history, paraphrases difficult passages, explains allusions, points out interesting variants (including material abandoned in drafts), identifies sources and influences, looks at the verse form and offers critical interpretation. Auden's formal and intellectual range challenges comparison with Eliot or Yeats, and his particular interests - psychological, anthropological, prosodic, theological, historical - lend an added resonance to the texture of his work, all of which is explored and interpreted, with exemplary lucidity, in this most essential of one-volume companions. 'magnificent.a model of scholarly engagement that is both rigorous and readable.' Paul Muldoon, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year

Author Biography:

John Fuller was educated at New College, Oxford, and was formerly a Fellow and tutor in English at Magdalen College. An award-winning novelist, he has also published five poetry collections; Epistles to Several Persons (1973), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1974, The Illusionists (1980), Stones and Fires (1996), winner of the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Poetry Collection, Now and for a Time (2002) and Ghosts (2004). John Fuller lives in Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Release date NZ
April 5th, 2007
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  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
Edition
Main
Pages
640
Dimensions
153x234x48
ISBN-13
9780571192724
Product ID
2045875

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