Auden
In Our Time19 Dec 2019

Auden

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and poetry of WH Auden (1907-1973) up to his departure from Europe for the USA in 1939. As well as his personal life, he addressed suffering and confusion, and the moral issues that affected the wider public in the 1930s and tried to unpick what was going wrong in society and to understand those times. He witnessed the rise of totalitarianism in the austerity of that decade, travelling through Germany to Berlin, seeing Spain in the Civil War and China during its wars with Japan, often collaborating with Christopher Isherwood. In his lifetime his work attracted high praise and intense criticism, and has found new audiences in the fifty years since his death, sometimes taking literally what he meant ironically.

With

Mark Ford Poet and Professor of English at University College London

Janet Montefiore Professor Emerita of 20th Century English Literature at the University of Kent

And

Jeremy Noel-Tod Senior Lecturer in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia

Producer: Simon Tillotson

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