The Portable Romantic Poets - (Portable Library) by W H Auden & Norman Holmes Pearson (Paperback)
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Highlights
- This volume, edited and with a superb introduction by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, presents the greatest of the Romantics in all the fullness and ardor of their vision, including William Blake, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Edgar Allan Poe.
- About the Author: W.H. Auden was born in 1907 and went to Oxford University, where he became Professor of Poetry from 1956 to 1960.
- 576 Pages
- Poetry, European
- Series Name: Portable Library
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Originally published: New York: Viking Penguin, 1950.Book Synopsis
This volume, edited and with a superb introduction by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, presents the greatest of the Romantics in all the fullness and ardor of their vision, including William Blake, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Edgar Allan Poe. What emerges is a panoramic view of a generation of artists struggling to remake the world in their own image--and miraculously succeeding.About the Author
W.H. Auden was born in 1907 and went to Oxford University, where he became Professor of Poetry from 1956 to 1960. After the publication of his Poems in 1930, he became the acknowledged leader of the 'thirties poets'. His poetic output was prolific, and he also wrote verse plays in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood, with whom he visited china. In 1946 he became a U.S. citizen. He died in 1973.Dimensions (Overall): 7.7 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x 1.3 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.0 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 576
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: European
Series Title: Portable Library
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Theme: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Format: Paperback
Author: W H Auden & Norman Holmes Pearson
Language: English
Street Date: June 30, 1977
TCIN: 90065541
UPC: 9780140150520
Item Number (DPCI): 247-04-6218
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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