September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem , Hörbuch, Digital, 1, 579min

This is an audiobook about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry.This an audiobook about a poet, W. H. Auden, a wunderkind, a victim-beneficiary of a literary cult of personality who became a scapegoat and a poet-expatriate largely excluded from British literary history because he left.About a poem September 1, 1939, his most famous and celebrated, yet one which he tried to rewrite and disown and which has enjoyed or been condemned to a tragic and unexpected afterlife.About a city, New York, an island, an emblem of the Future, magnificent, provisional, seamy, and in 1939 about to emerge as the defining 20th century cosmopolis, the capital of the world.And about a world at a point of change, about 1939, and about our own Age of Anxiety, about the aftermath of September 11, when many American newspapers reprinted Auden´s poem in its entirety on their editorial pages. 1. Language: English. Narrator: Ian Sansom. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/004811/bk_hcuk_004811_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.... Mehr