W. H. Auden: A Biography

by Humphrey Carpenter

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Relates events and anecdotes of the poet's life, based on his journal, notebooks, and letters.

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Humphrey Carpenter is the award-winning author of biographies of Dennis Potter, J.R.R. Tolkien, W.H. Auden, and Ezra Pound. He broadcasts regularly on BBC radio. Carpenter is married with two children and lives in Oxford, England

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Biography & Memoir, Literature Studies and Criticism, Poetry
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821.912Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesBritish Poetry1900-1900-19991900-1945
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PR6001 .U4 .Z636Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1900-1960
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