September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem by Ian Sansom

September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem

Ian Sansom

352 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history poetry informative reflective slow-paced
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One poet, his poem, New York City, and a world on the verge of change.W. H. Auden, a wunderkind, a victim-beneficiary of a literary cult of personality, became a scapegoat and a poet-expatriate largely excluded from British literary history becaus...

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