{"product_id":"9780007557233","title":"September 1, 1939 : W. H. Auden and the Afterlife of a Poem","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Sansom, Ian, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 20\/08\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 352 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Fourth Estate Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: HarperCollins Publishers,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780007557233\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a book 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout a city - New York, an island, an emblem of the Future, magnificent, provisional, seamy, and in 1939 about to emerge as the defining twentieth-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35616295321753,"sku":"9780007557233","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780007557233_93d88983-74e0-431b-b5dc-656ad85b6504.jpg?v=1601401351","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780007557233","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}