
Título: As I Walked Out One Evening
Autor: W. H. Auden
Sinopse: If we are to take Mendelson at his word in his preface to the controversial 1979 Selected Poems?he asserted that "the surest way to misunderstand Auden is to read him as the modernists' heir"?then the validity of "light" poetry as a category may notneed questioning. Auden himself, Mendelson reminds us, titled a section in Another Time (1940) "Lighter Poems." But Mendelson is hardly taking authorial intention into account. He is again using texts (invoking the "claims of history," as he did in 1979) that do not reflect Auden's later, "conservative" revisions. And, as in Selected Poems, we are not shown where the variants might occur. What we do have, we are told, are those "immediately accessible" works (precluding the indisputably "light"but homoerotic "Uncle Henry"). Even the cover is to feature a picture of the younger Auden looking properly dizzy. This much can be said for the book: it is an inexpensive alternative to the Complete Works, the only other place many of the libretti can be found. Recommended only for introductory collections.?Steven R. Ellis, Pennsylvania State Univ. Libs. Acabamento: Paperback. Peso: 268g. Dimensões: 23 x 16 x 1.
Contexto da obra
Dentro do catálogo, este livro pode ser situado a partir do tema, da autoria e da proposta editorial. “As I Walked Out One Evening”, de W. H. Auden, publicado pela editora Vintage*, em 1995 e com 240 páginas, integra a categoria Poesia - Estrangeira. Esse enquadramento pode tornar mais clara a proposta do livro e o tipo de interesse que ele costuma despertar.
Editora: Vintage*
Páginas: 240
Ano: 1995
Edição: 1ª EDIÇÃO
ISBN:
ISBN13: 9780679761709
