Another Time

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Another Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of which date from the early thirties, are about people, places and the intellectual climate of the times, and they show greater variety of tone and technique than in any previous book of Auden’s. Some of his most famous and often quoted (or misquoted) lines appear in their original form, including the text of two poems in particular – ‘Spain 1937’ and ‘September 1,1939’ – that he later altered or repudiated.

‘[He] has made himself into a kind of unofficial poet laureate. If I am bombed I hope he will write a few sapphics about me.’ Stephen Spender, 1941

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Weight 0.164 kg
Dimensions 1.1 × 13 × 19.5 cm
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

128
Publisher

Year Published

2007-2-1
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0571234372
About The Author

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.

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