Auden at Work [Hardcover]

These essays from a distinguished, international group of scholars trace the process of thinking and creation in one of the great literary minds of the twentieth century. Archival and newly available materials reveal this canonical author's composition process and artistic virtuosity.

Introduction; Bonnie Costello and Rachel Galvin
1. 'Still Doing It By Hand': Auden and the Typewriter; Hannah Sullivan
2. Auden's 1939 Journal: A Wartime Writer at Work; Rachel Galvin
3. Vehicles of the Ordinary: W. H. Auden and Cinematic Address; Jonathan Foltz,
4. Stages in Life's Way: Theatres of W.H. Auden; Daniel Jean
5. Auden and the Art of Illustration; Emily Hyde
6. A Marriage of True Minds: Collaborative Creativity in the Auden-Kallman Libretti; Reena Sastri
7. Setting Out for 'Atlantis'; Bonnie Costello,
8. The Fallen Empire; Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb
9. Shakespeare's Auden; Michael Wood
10. 'Thinking-Intuitive Types': Poetic Affinities in W.H. Auden and Paul Val?ry; Lisa Goldfarb
11. Auden's Preoccupations: Education and The Orators; Evan Kindley
12. Auden's Cold War Fame; Justin Quinn
13. Auden and the Work of The Age of Anxiety; Claire Seiler
14. 'No Permission to be Idle': W.H. Auden's Work Ethics; Tony Sharpe
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Jonathan Foltz, Boston University, USALisa Goldfarb, New York University's Gallatin School, USASusannah Yough-ah Gottlieb, Northwestern University, USAEmily Hyde, University of Pennsylvania, USADaniel Jean, Universit? Paris Diderot, FranceEvan Kindley, Claremont McKenna College, USAReena Sastri, Independent Scholar, UKClaire Seiler, Dickinson College, USATony Sharpe, Lancaster University, UKHannah Sullivan, University of Oxford, UKJustin Quinn, University of West Bohemia, Czech RepublicMichael Wood, Princeton University, USA