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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.
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The Auden Generation, Samuel Hynes
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- Released
- 1979
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- The Auden Generation
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Samuel Hynes
- Publisher
- Faber
- Released
- 1979
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 428
- ISBN10
- 0571113699
- ISBN13
- 9780571113699
- Series
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- 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.