The language of learning and the language of love
Subtitle: uncollected writing, new interpretations
By: W.H. Auden ; edited by Katherine Bucknell and Nicholas Jenkins.
Contributors: Bucknell, Katherine.; Jenkins, Nicholas, 1961-
Series: Auden studies ;; 2
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Description: The second volume in the Auden Studies series, 'The Language of Learning and the Language of Love', focuses on the first decade of Auden's literary career and considers his experiences both as a public figure and a private individual. It contains previously unpublished or uncollected poems and prose by Auden - all with scholarly introductions and annotation.

The volume reveals how Auden, as poet, teacher, and dramatist, battled with his literary ancestors, experienced love, and devised a rhetoric to express both homosexual feelings and artistic impulses.

Contributions to Auden Studies 2 include poems, songs, and a piece of early travel writing introduced by Auden's new biographer, the historian Richard Davenport-Hines. Lyrics offered to Benjamin Britten as cabaret songs are presented by Donald Mitchell, Philip Reed, and Nicholas Jenkins. Also in the volume is a fascinating array of essays about Auden by leading scholars in the field, including Stan Smith and Katherine Bucknell, and the German scholar and close friend of Auden, David Luke.

A further Supplement to Bloomfield and Mendelson's magisterial Auden Bibliography of 1972 is supplied by Edward Mendelson. 'The Language of Learning and the Language of Love' will be of immense interest to all readers of W. H. Auden and of twentieth-century poetry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: School writings; title: Uncollected songs and lighter poems; title: Gerhart Meyer and the vision of Eros / David Luke; title: Whatever you do don't go to the wood / Richard Bozorth; title: Everything turns away / David Pascoe; title: Persuasions to rejoice / Stan Smith; title: The achievement of Edward Upward / Katherine Bucknell; title: Interviews, dialogues, and conversations with W.H. Auden: a bibliography / Edward Mendelson.