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Wystan H. Auden

The Orators


2015. 112 p. 7.755906 in
Verlag/Jahr: FABER & FABER, LONDON 2015
ISBN: 0-571-28353-5 (0571283535)
Neue ISBN: 978-0-571-28353-8 (9780571283538)

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W. H. Audenīs classic long poem, now in Faberīs poetry typographic series.
When The Orators was originally published in 1932 it was described by Poetry Review as īsomething as important as the appearance of Mr Eliotīs poems fifteen years agoī. A long poem written in both prose and verse, it was a powerful addition to the canon of modernist poetry.
W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907 and brought up in Birmingham. His first book, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber in 1930. He went to Spain during the civil war, to Iceland (with Louis MacNeice) and later travelled to China. In 1939 he and Christopher Isherwood left for America, where Auden spent the next fifteen years lecturing, reviewing, writing poetry and opera librettos, and editing anthologies. He became an American citizen in 1946, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. In 1956 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and a year later went to live in Kirchstetten in Austria, after spending several summers on Ischia. He died in Vienna in 1973.

W. H. Audenīs first book, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber in 1930. In 1939 he and Christopher Isherwood left for America, where Auden spent the next fifteen years lecturing, reviewing, writing poetry and opera librettos, and editing anthologies. He became an American citizen in 1946, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. In 1956 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and a year later went to live in Kirchstetten in Austria, after spending several summers on Ischia. He died in Vienna in 1973.