Samuel Lynn Hynes (Books)

Samuel Lynn Hynes Books

A distinguished scholar and literary critic, Samuel Hynes's work delves into the human experience, frequently exploring themes of war, memory, and identity. He possessed a keen analytical eye, adept at dissecting the complex motivations of characters. Hynes's writing style was precise and evocative, offering readers unique insights into the human psyche and social commentary.

The Auden Generation

428 pages
15 hours of reading

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This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. The pace of the time itself, the sense of time passing and an end approaching gave a special quality to the Thirties. The public world pressed insistently on the private world. For those who came of literary age - Auden, Day Lewis, MacNeice, Spender, Graham Greene, Isherwood and Orwell among them - writing became a form of action. In the process a generation discovered itself and found its own expression.