Böcker av Rachel Wetzsteon

With this third collection, Rachel Wetzsteon continues to imprint American verse with her particular brand of smart, tart poems. These new pieces employ her remarkable formal agility in order to showcase an assortment of quarreling themes: learning and loss, autonomy and loneliness, love and work. The result is the rare book that is equal parts sass and sorrow.

Explores some of the important literary and philosophical influences on WH Auden's poetry. This study attempts to show that Auden's poetry derives much of its interest from a range of authors' on whom he drew for inspiration. It also suggests that his relationship to these writers was marked by ambivalence.