The island : war and belonging in Auden's England /

Jenkins, Nicholas

The island : war and belonging in Auden's England / Nicholas Jenkins. - xvi, 748 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Caliban's island -- Marsh -- The Historical Child: Music, War, and Sex, 1907-1922 -- Moor -- Mining the Countryside: Haunted Pastoralism, 1922-1925 -- The Rhino and the Child: Abject Modernism, 1925-1927 -- The English Keynote: Violent Words, 1927-1928 -- Strange Meetings: English in Germany, 1928-1929 -- Garden -- The English Cell: Dreams and Visions, 1929-1932 -- The Flood: Fear and Love, 1932-1935 -- Images in the Dark: Prophecies and Change, 1935-1936 -- The Island's Caliban. Prologue. Part One. Part Two. Part Three. Epilogue.

"Using Auden's work of the 1930s and 1940s as a case study, The Island describes his mid-twentieth-century shift from lyrics of poetic nationalism to a poetics of lyric cosmopolitanism."--

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Auden, W. H. 1907-1973 --Criticism and interpretation.
Auden, W. H. 1907-1973 --Friends and associates.


World War, 1914-1918--Influence.
Nationalism and literature--History--England--20th century.


England--In literature.

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