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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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. 77 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Dedications | W. H. Auden | WHA
published his Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957, dedicated to Christopher Isherwood
and Chester Kallman
. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. 1967 Auden, W. H. Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957. Faber and Faber. |
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. University Press of Virginia. 39 |
Education | W. H. Auden | Wystan Auden attended St Edmund's School at Hindhead inSurrey (where he first met Christopher Isherwood
), then Gresham's School at Holt inNorfolk, which was supposedly modern and progressive but which he later described as... |
Friends, Associates | W. H. Auden | It was during his undergraduate years that WHA
formed close friendships with his near-contemporary and fellow writer Christopher Isherwood
and with fellow poet Stephen Spender
. For a while these three were seen as a... |
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... |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Zoë Fairbairns | ZF
's second contribution, Mrs Morris Changes Lanes, takes its title from Christopher Isherwood
's Mr Norris Changes Trains, 1935. Elderly Mrs Morris feeds her confidence and independence through her adventures in becoming... |
Publishing | E. M. Forster | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
was also a great success with the art-historian Bernard Berenson
. Among a younger generation of artists and writers whom she often welcomed as guests were Siegfried Sassoon
, W. H. Auden
, Christopher Isherwood |
Literary responses | Rosamond Lehmann | Novelist Christopher Isherwood
became Lehmann's friend as a result of his admiration of this book. LeStourgeon, Diana. Rosamond Lehmann. Twayne. 74 Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang. 103 Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus. 139 |
Friends, Associates | Ling Shuhua | Other authors with connections to Bloomsbury were drawn to |
Occupation | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West
, Stella Benson
, Cicely Hamilton
, Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor
and Ellen Wilkinson
, Virginia Woolf
, Naomi Mitchison
, E. M. Delafield
, Rose Macaulay |
Literary responses | Mary McCarthy | Edmund Wilson
, who encouraged her to write the first story, thought the book marvelous . . . and recommended it to |
Friends, Associates | Carson McCullers | CMC
therefore shared her day-to-day life at various times with Davis
, W. H. Auden
, Louis MacNiece
, Gypsy Rose Lee
, Benjamin Britten
, Richard Wright
, Paul
and Jane Bowles
, Christopher Isherwood |
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