The Cambridge Companion to W.H.Auden

Offering original perspectives from new amd established Auden critics and others, this volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world´s leading experts on the life and work of W.H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century.The volume´s contributors include prize-winning poets, Auden´s literary executor and editor, and his most recent, widely acclaimed biographer. The Companion also examines his language, style and formal innovation, his prose and critical writing and his ideas about sexuality, religion, psychoanalysis, politics, landscape, ecology, and globalization.