The Poet Auden: A Personal Memoir - Hardcover

Rowse, A. L.

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9781555841980: The Poet Auden: A Personal Memoir

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ISBN 10: 1555841988 ISBN 13: 9781555841980

Publisher: Olympic Marketing Corp, 1988

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Part memoir, part literary criticism, this collection of caring and witty reflections by a friend and colleague of the poet includes portraits of the members of the writer's circle in which Auden traveled and a look at the culture in which he flourished

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Rowse was a young history don during Auden's undergraduate years at Oxford (1925-28); the two became friends there and maintained a passing acquaintance for the rest of Auden's life. Rowse's "memoir" is a mixture of biography and criticisminformal, anecdotal, and highly personal. In assessing Auden's poetry, he finds little to admire after 1939, the year Auden moved to America; he suggests that the move itself may have triggered the poetic decline. Despite its personal slant, the book adds little to existing biographies; our view of Auden is obscured by the author's gratuitous, often tangential, comments on himself, and by his casual airing of opinions, ranging from brief asides on politics to a defense of his ideas about Shakespeare's sonnets. Michael Hennessy, John Carroll Univ., Cleveland, Ohio
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