Auden's poems are treasured for their wit and intelligence, their meticulous craftsmanship, and their deep feeling for social and moral issues as well as personal ones. In the words of Stephen Spender at Auden's memorial service in Oxford, "[T]hroughout the whole development of his poetry...his theme had been love: not Romantic love but love as ...
Translators Leonard Nathan and James Larson present seventy-five poems from Gunnar Ekelof's middle phase (1938-1959), a period that saw the production of his richest and most enduring poetry. With fewer than a third of these poems previously available in English, this volume illuminates the work of a poet acknowledged to be in the first rank not ...
Gunnar Ekelof (1907-1968), poet and essayist, is widely regarded as one of the most original Scandinavian writers of the 20th century. Subtle and penetrative as his mature thought undoubtedly is, and shot through with cryptic allusions and esoteric overtones, he was nevertheless always concerned to try to temper his erudition in ways which would ...
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