Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in England in the 1930's

This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. The pace of the time itself, the sense of time passing and an end approaching gave a special quality to the Thirties. The public world pressed insistently on the private world. For those who came of literary age — Auden, Day Lewis, MacNeice, Spender, Graham Greene, Isherwood and Orwell among them — writing became a form of action. In the process a generation discovered itself and found its own expression.

• Author
• Samuel Hynes

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 430

• Publisher
• Princeton University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780691013954

• Genres
• history, politics

• Release date
• 1982