Beschreibung:
Bonnie Costello is William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and professor of English at Boston University. Her many books include Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions, Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery, Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry, and Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World. She is general editor of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore, and coeditor of Auden at Work.
"The Plural of Us is an immensely ambitious look at the first person plural pronoun in Auden's poetry. Presenting a useful account of recent debates in literary scholarship on Auden, Costello traces the evolution of his thinking about the relation of the poet to audience and larger community. This book is a significant contribution to the study of modern English poetry."--Rosanna Warren, author of Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry