The Auden Generation

By Samuel Hynes

Book Overview

This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. The pace of the time itself the sense of time passing and an end approaching gave a special quality to the Thirties. The public world pressed insistently on the private world. For those who came of literary age - Auden Day Lewis MacNeice Spender Graham Greene Isherwood and Orwell among them - writing became a form of action. In the process a generation discovered itself and found its own expression.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0712652507
• ISBN13: 9780712652506
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Pimlico
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

widely available

This excellent survey of poetry (mostly) in the 1930's in England is widely available as a used paperback for less than ten dollars (including postage)if you look around the used book sites on the internet. It is currently out of print but well worth that level of investment.