Living in time : the poetry of C. Day Lewis / Albert Gelpi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gelpi, Albert, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904-1972--Criticism and interpretation.

Day Lewis, C.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Oxford poets of the 1930s--W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Stephen Spender, and Louis MacNeice--represented the first concerted British challenge to the domination of twentieth-century poetry by the innovations of American modernists such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. Known for their radical politics and aesthetic conservatism, the ""Auden Generation"" has come to loom large in our map of twentieth century literary history. Yet Auden's voluble domination of the group in its brief period of association, and Auden's sway with critics ever since, has made it difficult to hear the othe

Contents:

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; ONE: ""In Me Two Worlds At War"": Poetry and Politics, 1925-1940; TWO: Desire Going Forth and Returning: Poetry and Eros, 1940-1950; THREE: ""On Not Saying Everything"": Poetry and Thanatos, 1950-1972; AFTERWORD; WORKS CITED; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772497-3

1-280-45151-3

1-4237-3584-6

0-19-535688-8

1-60256-063-3

OCLC:

475957133