{"product_id":"early-auden-later-auden-9780691172491","title":"Early Auden Later Auden","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It's a wealth of intelligence, knowledge and insight that Mendelson ... brings to this study... With his array of interpretative tools, he solves for the first time the notorious obscurities of Auden's earliest work.\"--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times \"Remarkable ... Presents the poet's life and art so vividly as to illuminate the major works and bring out neglected ones.\"--Grace Schulman, Nation \"Rich and suggestive in its generalizations, resourceful in its scholarship, and precise in its readings of Auden's work.\"--Paul Fussell, New Republic \"Mendelson's brilliant anatomy of Auden's career as a poet and magus in America is an intellectual and artistic tour de force.\"--Economist \"[An] astonishing critical study... An absorbing life of the poet's mind ... Exciting and provocative.\"--Walter Clemons, Newsweek \"[Mendelson's] close readings are always meticulous and insightful, and he draws detailed connections between what Auden read and what he wrote... [S]hould be kept on the shelf right next to the Collected Poems.\"--Adam Kirsch, New York Observer \"Could well change the map of modern poetry... A model of condensation, [it] proceeds through the huge, often neglected body of work with grace and wit.\"--Tom D'Evelyn, Boston Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the One-Volume Edition ix  Early Auden  Introduction to Early Auden 3  Part One: The Border And The Group (August 1927-May 1933) I The Exiled Word 15  II The Watershed 36  III Family Ghosts 53  IV The Evolutionary Defile 69  V Trickster and Tribe 86  VI Private Places 115  VII Looking for Land 132  Part Two: The Two Worlds (June 1933-January 1939)  VIII Lucky This Point 151  IX The Great Divide 167  X The Insufficient Touch 196  XI Their Indifferent Redeemer 220  XII Parables of Action: 1 236  XIII Parables of Action: 2 257  XIV History to the Defeated 277  XV From This Island 297  Epilogue 325  Later Auden  Introduction to Later Auden 329  Part One: Vision And After (1939-1947)  I Demon or Gift 339  II The Vision Enters 363  III Against the Devourer 389  IV Investigating the Crime 418  V It without Image 448  VI Imaginary Saints 471  VII The Absconded Vision 495  VIII The Murderous Birth 522  IX Asking for Neighborhood 557  Part Two: The Flesh We Are (1948-1957)  X The Murmurs of the Body 589  XI Waiting for a City 615  XII The Great Quell 638  XIII Number or Face 664  XIV The Altering Storm 690  Part Three: Territorial (1958-1973)  XV Poet of the Encirclement 715  XVI The Air Changes 735  XVII This Time Final 755  XVIII The Concluding Carnival 783  Postscript  His Secret Life 809  Notes and Index  Reference Notes 821  Index 877","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403835810135,"sku":"9780691172491","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691172491.jpg?v=1730484676","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/early-auden-later-auden-9780691172491","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}