{"product_id":"later-auden-9780374526993","title":"Later Auden","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe definitive study of Audens poems from 1939 to 1973.  \"For a poet like myself  an autobiography is redundant \" W. H. Auden wrote to a friend  \"since anything of importance that happens to one is immediately incorporated  however obscurely  in a poem.\" This book is the history of Audens poems  and of the events that went into them  from the time he moved to the United States until his death  completing the story begun in Edward Mendelsons acclaimed Early Auden.  Later Auden links the changes in Audens intellectual  emotional  religious  and erotic life with his shifting public roles--as representative of political causes  as researcher working with the U.S. Army in postwar Germany  as public moralist  as lecturer and teacher  and above all as poet. Mendelson deftly reveals how Auden converted the success and later wreckage of his relationship with Chester Kallman into the seemingly impersonal meditations of some of his long poems  and explores the ways his later poetry celebrates the human body and represents it in verse. Throughout  he reveals the depth of Audens struggles with himself and with the temptations of his growing fame  showing how these struggles gave shape to his imperishable art.  This inner biography of a great poet and thinker has unusual breadth and intensity. An absorbing narrative of a varied  productive life  it will interest everyone who cares about literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67932170485813,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374526990","price":101.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374526993.jpg?v=1794220167","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/later-auden-9780374526993","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}