The genesis of this novel probably dates from a visit which EMF
made in September 1913 to the socialist and homosexual activist Edward Carpenter
, whose lifelong campaign against prejudice and inequity were an inspiration...
Residence
W. H. Auden
WHA
, with Christopher Isherwood
, left England for the United States, not intending at the time to stay permanently. He became a US citizen in 1946.
Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. The Disenchanted Island. Oxford University Press, 1968.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production
W. H. Auden
Actual performance pieces were The Dance of Death, published in 1933 and performed by the Group Theatre
in 1934, and three plays written with Isherwood
: The Dog Beneath the Skin; or, Where is...
Textual Production
W. H. Auden
WHA
and Christopher Isherwood
published Journey to a War, a book of poetry based on their trip to China to investigate the Sino-Japanese War.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Bloomfield, Barry Cambray, and Edward Mendelson. W. H. Auden: A Bibliography 1924-1969. 2nd ed., University Press of Virginia, 1972.
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Travel
W. H. Auden
From autumn 1928 WHA
lived for nearly a year at Berlin in Germany, at first with a comfortably bourgeois family selected by his own, then in a poor district selected by himself. He chose...