Auden's Games of Knowledge: Poetry and the Meanings of Homosexuality

by Richard R. Bozorth

Book Overview

The first full-length consideration of Auden as a homosexual poet, this volume shows that Auden's career was tied to a process of gay self-interrogation unparalleled in modern poetry and argues that he was driven by a powerful yearning to comprehend the psychological, political, and ethical implications of same-sex desire.

Auden's theories about poetry in the 1930s and after reflected an intense concern with how to write publicly as a homosexual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231113536
• ISBN13: 9780231113533
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"