Tony M Sharpe

T.S. Eliot: A Literary Life

Wallace Stevens: A Literary Life

Vladimir Nabokov

W.H. Auden (Routledge Guides to Literature)

As both a politically engaged and stylistically versatile poet, W.H. Auden is one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. His work is not only widely studied and read, but has been used in musical scores and quoted in Hollywood films. This guide to Auden’scompelling work offers: ...

Wallace Stevens: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)

Wallace Stevens, one of this century's foremost American poets, has been both praised and blamed for the "difficulty" of his poems and has bemused those seeking to reconcile the sobriety of his career as an insurance lawyer with the extravagance of his poetry. In this book, Tony Sharpe explores the ...

W. H. Auden in Context

W. H. Auden is a giant of twentieth-century English poetry whose writings demonstrate a sustained engagement with the times in which he lived. But how did the century's shifting cultural terrain affect him and his work? Written by distinguished poets and scholars, these brief but authoritative essay...

T. S. Eliot: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)

Part of a series which offers accounts of the literary careers of the most widely read British and Irish authors. This volume looks at T.S.Eliot and traces the professional, publishing and social contexts which shaped his writing.