Böcker av Randall Jarrell

There was once a little brown bat who couldn't sleep days?he kept waking up and looking at the world. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats, who from dawn to sunset never opened their eyes. The Bat-Poet is the story of how he tried to make the other bats see the world his way.

Offer readings of Auden's works and illuminates his use of stylistic registers and poetic genres. This book traces the ideas and ideologies that animated and overwhelmed Auden's poetry. It considers the influence of left-liberal politics, psychoanalytic and evolutionary theory, and Christian theology that characterized Auden's poems of the 1940s.

Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women's college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits.