SEPTEMBER 1, 1939. BIOGRAPHY OF A POEM

This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary critic ism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry.This is a book about a poet W. H. A uden, a wunderkind, a victim-beneficiary of a literary cult of personality who became a scapegoat and a poet-expatriate largely excl uded from British literary history because he left.About a poem September 1, 1939, his most famous and celebrated, yet one which he tried to...[Read more]