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Title: W. H. Auden by John Fuller ISBN: 0-691-07049-0 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: The wide richness of a poet's commentary
Comment: W. H. Auden's work is in a way a challenge to the reader. Many times (Specially in the so called english Auden) it happens that you don't really know what the poem is about or why you like it. As Mr. Fuller says sometimes "Auden's merit lies in his vagueness". The Oxford professor Mr. John Fuller has written a highly accurate work in which he comments every single work published and unpublished by Auden. He states in his prologue that this is not a book for reading "in the normal way", meaning that "W. H. Auden: A Commentary" is a book just as a dictionnary is: A book in which you look for some information but you don't read from the first page until the last as you do it with a novel for instance. I actually don't think Mr. Fuller's opinion to be in this case too fair. In spite of the evident, permanent and necessary reference to Auden's work I beleive the tone and mood of his own comments make this book readable not only as an information book but also as a work in itself. The very word "Commentary" moves to think in a work written in order to illuminate another text. But Mr. Fuller builds his commentary from a wide range of "starting points". Sometimes is Auden's meter, sometimes the structural likness with other poetic form (As the "Sagas" - a nordic poetic form completely unknown to me) or just a philosophical or psychological concept used by Auden in a quite hidden way or lastly Mr. Fuller's own perplexity like in his comment to the poem "The Wanderer". Mr. Fuller's comments never exceed a couple of pages, but there he develops his own way of reading the poem and give us the chance to see this simple fact in action: How does a man read. In addition to this the book provides the whole technical and theoretical background required to enjoy the poem even more than after our vague intuitons. If you look for general observations about Auden's life or work this is not the book for you. But if you are looking for a way to refine your own readings by learning a lot of information hidden in Auden's poems and at the same time contemplate how works the interpretive mind of a great poet when he reads a 20th century classic, this is a perfect chance.
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Title: Later Auden by Edward Mendelson ISBN: 0374526990 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Early Auden by Edward Mendelson ISBN: 0374526958 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Selected Poems by W. H. Auden, Edward Mendelson ISBN: 0679724834 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare's the Tempest by W. H. Auden ISBN: 0691113718 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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