"Poetas ingleses Siglo XX." . . "Scriitori Biografii." . . . . "Poets, English Biography 20th century." . . "Poètes anglais 20e siècle Biographies." . . "1900 - 1999" . . . "Biografieën (vorm)" . "Biographie" . . . . . . . "Auden" . "Auden"@en . . . . . . . . . . "Auden : [biography]" . . . . . . "W.H. Auden was the greatest English poet of the twentieth century. As witness to many of the century's pivotal moments - Berlin in the 1920s, Spain and China in the 1930s, wartime and postwar America - and because of his consuming quest to translate the social, political, and cultural upheavals into poetry, his importance at century's end is undeniable. It is Richard Davenport-Hines' achievement in this biography (the first in fifteen years) to make clear the extent of Auden's achievement - as a poet, a librettist, and an essayist - and to show how his works serve as a commentary on the wars, ideologies, spiritual questioning, and sexual attitudes of the time in which he lived. Auden's ambition was to be a great poet. Beyond his intense need to experience and to be consumed by experience, there was also an inexhaustible curiosity about ideas, a passion for understanding, and a desire for wisdom. In an age when heroic conceptions are no longer useful, Auden's outer and inner travels and his dedication to writing establish his life as a model of what it means to be a poet today, and underscore the tremendous cost, in the words of Auden's friend Hannah Arendt, of following the \"heart's invisible furies.\" In Auden, Davenport-Hines has given us a portrait that is fresh, convincing and exemplary." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Biography"@en . "Biography" . . . "Literatură engleză." . . "British Biography United States." . . "Biografii." . . "Poets, English 20th century Biography." . .