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![September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem by Ian Sansom](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCT2diSGdFPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--b7f5e58093fc0e68356f499b85874dc5aedf77aa/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/September%201,%201939-%20A%20Biography%20of%20a%20Poem.jpg)
352 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780062984593
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harper
Publication date: 24 September 2019
Description
One poet, his poem, New York City, and a world on the verge of change.W. H. Auden, a wunderkind, a victim-beneficiary of a literary cult of personality, became a scapegoat and a poet-expatriate largely excluded from British literary history becaus...
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352 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780062984593
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harper
Publication date: 24 September 2019
Description
One poet, his poem, New York City, and a world on the verge of change.W. H. Auden, a wunderkind, a victim-beneficiary of a literary cult of personality, became a scapegoat and a poet-expatriate largely excluded from British literary history becaus...