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Humphrey Carpenter
495 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780395324394
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Publication date: Not specified
Description
W. H. Auden disapproved of literary biography. Or did he? The truth is far more equivocal than at first seems apparent. There is no denying he delivered himself of such unambiguous pronouncements as 'Biographies of writers are always superfluous a...
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Humphrey Carpenter
495 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780395324394
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Publication date: Not specified
Description
W. H. Auden disapproved of literary biography. Or did he? The truth is far more equivocal than at first seems apparent. There is no denying he delivered himself of such unambiguous pronouncements as 'Biographies of writers are always superfluous a...