Later Auden

by Mendelson, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780374184087
• ISBN10: 0374184089
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux

Summary

This definitive study of the poetry of W.H. Auden, from 1939 to 1973, offers the history of his poems, and of the events that went into them, from the time Auden moved to the United States to his death, completing the story begun in Mendelson's acclaimed "Early Auden".

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	ix	(4)
Introduction	xiii
PART ONE Vision and After 1939-1947	3	(274)
I Demon or Gift	3	(28)
II The Vision Enters	31	(30)
III Against the Devourer	61	(28)
IV Investigating the Crime	89	(33)
V It Without Image	122	(26)
VI Imaginary Saints	148	(27)
VII The Absconded Vision	175	(30)
VIII The Murderous Birth	205	(37)
IX Asking for Neighborhood	242	(35)
PART TWO The Flesh We Are 1948-1957	277	(140)
X The Murmurs of the Body	277	(29)
XI Waiting for a City	306	(26)
XII The Great Quell	332	(28)
XIII Number or Face	360	(29)
XIV The Altering Storm	389	(28)
PART THREE Territorial 1958-1973	417	(106)
XV Poet of the Encirclement	417	(23)
XVI The Air Changes	440	(22)
XVII This Time Final	462	(31)
XVIII The Concluding Carnival	493	(30)
Notes	523	(38)
Index	561