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7. Mai 2024 · The Shield of Achilles, which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W. H. Auden’s most important, intricately designed, and unified book of poetry. In addition to its famous title poem, which reimagines Achilles’s shield for the modern age, when war and heroism have changed beyond recognition, the book also includes ...
Vor einem Tag · Britten became a member of the film unit's small group of regular contributors, another of whom was W. H. Auden. Together they worked on the documentary films Coal Face and Night Mail in 1935. [44]
Vor 3 Tagen · Many modern authors include alliterative verse among their compositions, including Poul Anderson, W.H. Auden, Fred Chappell, Richard Eberhart, John Heath-Stubbs, C. Day-Lewis, C. S. Lewis, Ezra Pound, John Myers Myers, Patrick Rothfuss, L. Sprague de Camp, J. R. R. Tolkien and Richard Wilbur.
21. Apr. 2024 · W.H. Auden (1907-1973) was born and raised in England, educated at Oxford. He traveled extensively and settled for twenty years in America, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1946. The historic plaque attached to his house at Saint Mark’s Place in Manhattan’s Lower East Side was recentlystolen.
Vor 23 Stunden · Susan Sontag. Susan Lee Sontag, geb. Rosenblatt (* 16. Januar 1933 in New York City; † 28. Dezember 2004 ebenda), war eine US-amerikanische, in verschiedenen Sparten publizierende Autorin, Kulturkritikerin und Regisseurin . Sontag wuchs in New York, Tucson und Los Angeles auf. Sie studierte Englische Literatur, Philosophie und Theologie in ...
22. Apr. 2024 · Edward Mendelson’s magnificent annotated Complete Works of W.H. Auden, concluding with two enormous volumes of poetry, was of a piece with this kind of renown-parade, but the little hardcover volumes that Princeton University Press is calving off it help a bit to redress things. Here are the little individual titles of Auden’s ...
27. Apr. 2024 · “The Shield of Achilles” by W. H. Auden was first published in 1952, as part of his collection “Nones”. The poem is an ekphrastic poem, which means that it is a description of a work of art, in this case, the shield of Achilles, as described in Homer’s Iliad. In the poem, Auden reflects on the contrast between the heroic ...
