What Became of Wystan? – Change and Continuity in Auden`s Poetry Jacobs

What Became of Wystan?: Change and Continuity in Auden's Poetry\nby Alan Jacobs\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Alan Jacobs\nTitle: What Became of Wystan?: Change and Continuity in Auden's Poetry\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Society and culture: general\nPublisher: University of Arkansas Press\nPublication year: 1999\nISBN-13: 9781557285829\nISBN-10: 1557285829\nRRP: \u00A319.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn this lucid and balanced treatise Alan Jacobs reveals the true parameters of Auden's change after the poet's move to America in 1939. By carefully examining poems that represent transitional moments in Auden's thinking, Jacobs identifies the points at which the tectonic plates of the poet's intellect clashed and the buckles and rifts these pressures caused in A.