Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

W.H. Auden / a presentation of Films for the Humanities & Sciences ; Tranquilo Producciones ; producer, Fernanda Dominguez ; director, Pablo Garcia ; scriptwriter, Patrick Walsh, Virginia Gallo.

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Description:

1 videodisc (21 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

A prolific virtuoso of poetic forms and techniques, W.H. Auden achieved literary fame on both sides of the Atlantic. He was also a prolific writer of prose essays and reviews, and was a success at an early age. He became uncomfortable with his reputation as a left-wing political poet and prophet, and abandoned it after he moved to the United States in 1939. This program traces his life's story and provides a sampling of his very best works, including "Musée des Beaux Arts," "In Memory of W.B. Yeats," "Epitaph on a Tyrant," "Leap Before You Look," and "The Shield of Achilles."

Series:

Six poets, searching for rhyme and reason

6 poets, searching for rhyme and reason.

Subjects:

Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973.

Poets, English.

Poets, English -- 20th century.

Expatriate artists -- United States.

Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography.

Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.

English poetry -- 20th century -- History.

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