September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem

by Ian Sansom

Book Overview

One poet, his poem, New York City, and a world on the verge of change.

W. H. Auden, a wunderkind, a victim-beneficiary of a literary cult of personality, became a scapegoat and a poet-expatriate largely excluded from British literary history because he left. And his poem, "September 1, 1939," was his most famous and celebrated, yet one which he tried to rewrite and disown and which has enjoyed--or been condemned--to a tragic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062984594
• ISBN13: 9780062984593
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"