Auden
Autor Peter Ackroyden Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 iun 2026
Of all the English poets born in the twentieth century, Wystan Hugh Auden is by far the most significant. This critical biography explores the evolution of his poetic voice in tandem with his shifting beliefs—existentialism, Marxism, Freudianism, and Anglo-Catholicism—reflecting the intellectual climate of the century. Rooted in English traditions, Auden’s work reveals both public and personal histories, from the Depression and Spanish Civil War to his experiences as a gay man navigating repression and later liberation. The book traces his journeys from Oxford to Berlin, China, and America, bringing to life his turbulent era and the inner conflicts of his long relationship with Chester Kallman. This insightful and compelling account by acclaimed historian Peter Ackroyd captures Auden’s genius as both a historical witness and an enduring poetic voice.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781836391722
ISBN-10: 1836391722
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: 23 halftones
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
ISBN-10: 1836391722
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: 23 halftones
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
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Notă biografică
Peter Ackroyd is one of Britain’s most respected historians and novelists. His many books include London: The Biography, Hawksmoor, and the bestselling History of England series. He is also the author of The English Actor and The English Soul, both published by Reaktion Books.
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"Novelist and historian Ackroyd’s beautifully written volume shines in its appreciation for Auden’s technical ingenuity as a poet and is reasonably sympathetic to his shortcomings and inconsistencies, especially with regard to his lifelong partner, Chester Kallman. Ackroyd is skilled at describing Auden’s evolution as a writer: his strict work habits, his successes as a schoolteacher, his pleasure in collaborations with musicians such as Igor Stravinsky, and the ways in which the works of Thomas Hardy, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung influenced him. . . . Ackroyd is an astute and appreciative observer of this great poet’s life."
"Ackroyd’s intriguing biography tracks the great poet from his earliest years to his harrowing physical transformation. . . . Ackroyd paints Auden as a poet with hawk’s vision and a masochistic streak, full of moral certitude but just as prone to weep at Garbo films or be overtaken by swamps of self-torment."
“Late in life, while living in Berlin, sozzled poet WH Auden was reported to the police for driving erratically. When he appeared in court, he was asked if he took alcohol and replied: 'I have been drinking every night of my adult life.' The German authorities acquitted him and, according to Ackroyd, in his first-class new biography Auden, Auden’s typically Auden comment to his friend Peter Hayworth was 'the judge was rather a dish, my dear, didn’t you think?'"
"For a poet of such stature, WH Auden has been comparatively ill-served by biographers. . . . Step forward, then, Peter Ackroyd, writer of many indispensable literary biographies: notably of TS.Eliot, William Blake and Charles Dickens. In this fine life of the poet who, perhaps more than any other, defined the literary aesthetic of England between the wars, he offers a new standard work. . . . Ackroyd is excellent on Auden's creative development: his lifelong quest for a voice with which he was happy, rooted in a rigorous attention to metre, a debt to homily, a love of Old English culture and a fascination with music, language and their interconnection . . . Auden, in spite of his gifts (or because of them), was never truly happy. But he has, more than half a century after his death, finally found a biographer worthy of his life and work."
"Auden was a mass of contradictions, and Ackroyd gets it right in calling him 'The Double Man,' which was the American title of the poem known in Britain as 'New Year Letter.'"
“This is a terrific life of an intriguing poet by one of our great biographers. Ackroyd sensitively explores W H Auden's development as a poet, his family, religion (Anglo-Catholic) and relationships. By fleshing out Auden the man, we better understand his verse. One fine writer on another.”
“Traditional cradle-to-crematorium biography is not dead yet. Ackroyd, whose lives of Blake, Dickens and Turner were so memorable, will publish his Auden, an account of WH Auden and his circle.”
"This critical biography of poet W.H. Auden analyzes his work in the context of his intellectual promiscuity and experiences as a gay man living in the repressive early twentieth century."
"Ackroyd’s intriguing biography tracks the great poet from his earliest years to his harrowing physical transformation. . . . Ackroyd paints Auden as a poet with hawk’s vision and a masochistic streak, full of moral certitude but just as prone to weep at Garbo films or be overtaken by swamps of self-torment."
“Late in life, while living in Berlin, sozzled poet WH Auden was reported to the police for driving erratically. When he appeared in court, he was asked if he took alcohol and replied: 'I have been drinking every night of my adult life.' The German authorities acquitted him and, according to Ackroyd, in his first-class new biography Auden, Auden’s typically Auden comment to his friend Peter Hayworth was 'the judge was rather a dish, my dear, didn’t you think?'"
"For a poet of such stature, WH Auden has been comparatively ill-served by biographers. . . . Step forward, then, Peter Ackroyd, writer of many indispensable literary biographies: notably of TS.Eliot, William Blake and Charles Dickens. In this fine life of the poet who, perhaps more than any other, defined the literary aesthetic of England between the wars, he offers a new standard work. . . . Ackroyd is excellent on Auden's creative development: his lifelong quest for a voice with which he was happy, rooted in a rigorous attention to metre, a debt to homily, a love of Old English culture and a fascination with music, language and their interconnection . . . Auden, in spite of his gifts (or because of them), was never truly happy. But he has, more than half a century after his death, finally found a biographer worthy of his life and work."
"Auden was a mass of contradictions, and Ackroyd gets it right in calling him 'The Double Man,' which was the American title of the poem known in Britain as 'New Year Letter.'"
“This is a terrific life of an intriguing poet by one of our great biographers. Ackroyd sensitively explores W H Auden's development as a poet, his family, religion (Anglo-Catholic) and relationships. By fleshing out Auden the man, we better understand his verse. One fine writer on another.”
“Traditional cradle-to-crematorium biography is not dead yet. Ackroyd, whose lives of Blake, Dickens and Turner were so memorable, will publish his Auden, an account of WH Auden and his circle.”
"This critical biography of poet W.H. Auden analyzes his work in the context of his intellectual promiscuity and experiences as a gay man living in the repressive early twentieth century."
"Ackroyd, the celebrated biographer of T. S. Eliot, has now turned his attention to Eliot’s great successor as an Anglo-American poet. Auden is an eminently readable and well-paced account, rich in anecdote, sympathetically following the man all the way from prodigious youth to senior man of letters."