The Orators

W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden’s classic long poem, now in Faber’s poetry typographic series.

5 in stock

£14.99
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571283538
Date Published
03.09.2015
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Summary

When The Orators was originally published in 1932 it was described by Poetry Review as ‘something as important as the appearance of Mr Eliot’s poems fifteen years ago’. A long poem written in both prose and verse, it was a powerful addition to the canon of modernist poetry.

W.H.Auden

W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907 and brought up in Birmingham. His first book, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber in 1930. He went to Spain during the civil war, to Iceland (with Louis MacNeice) and later travelled to China. In 1939 he and Christopher Isherwood left for America, where Auden spent the next…

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