Thursday, September 02, 2010
	Poet W. H. Auden was acutely aware of the historical moments in which he lived. Unlike the modernist poets, who vacillated between the ideal visions of the past and stark portrayals of the present, Auden dealt directly with issues of civic life in the urban environment of the 1930s. Auden's biographer, Edward Mendelson of Columbia University, explains how the poet tried to discover connections between the ordinary events of daily life and the larger movements of history. Edward Mendelson is the author of a number of books about Auden, including Early Auden (Viking Press, 1981). Auden, Wystan Hugh Literature--Poetry
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