Limba: Engleza
Data publicării: 2024
Editura: Princeton University Press
Tip copertă: Hardcover
Nr Pag: 136
Colectie: W.H. Auden: Critical Editions
ISBN: 9780691218656
Dimensiuni: l: 15cm | H: 23cm | 2.2cm | 386g
Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden's National Book Award-winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readers
The Shield of Achilles, which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W. H. Auden's most important, intricately designed, and unified book of poetry.
In addition to its famous title poem, which reimagines Achilles's shield for the modern age, when war and heroism have changed beyond recognition, the book also includes two sequences-"Bucolics" and "Horae Canonicae"-that Auden believed to be among his most significant work.
Featuring an authoritative text and an introduction and notes by Alan Jacobs, this volume brings Auden's collection back into print for the first time in decades and offers the only critical edition of the work.