American & Canadian Literature, Poetry - Literary Criticism, Historical Biography - Britain, British History - General & Miscellaneous, English Literature
Log in to track your reading progress.
Overview
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.Book Details
Published
April 30, 2011
Publisher
Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
ISBN
9781446467985