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The Landscapes of W. H. Auden's Interwar Poetry: Roots and Routes

The Landscapes of W. H. Auden's Interwar Poetry: Roots and Routes

Vít, Ladislav

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Series: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1032161310
ISBN13: 9781032161310
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 25 2023
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This is the first book-length study foregrounding Auden's sense of place as a means for enhancing our grasp of this crucial twentieth-century poet.

Proposing that Auden had a remarkable spatial sensibility, this book concentrates on his treatment of his homeland England, as well as the North Pennines and Iceland, both of which served as his 'good' places, 'holy' grounds and sources of topophilic sentiment. The readings draw on the scholarship of humanistic geography, tracing patterns of mental constructs which emerge from spatial experience. In a scholarly but engaging way, this book argues that focusing on Auden's poetics of place as it emerged and evolved can be instrumental to our understanding of this influential poet not only in relation to his epoch but also to the Anglophone poetic tradition. Precisely because of his stature, these elaborations on Auden's preoccupation with places, escapism, borders and local identity promise to enrich our understanding of the cultural and intellectual climate of the interwar period, when established notions of local places and cultures were beginning to be contested by internationalisation.

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