Making of the Auden canon

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Author:

Joseph Warren Beach

“This is more than a scholarly investigation: it is a discussion of major changes in a modern religious and moral sensibility.”

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Frederick J. Hoffman, literary critic

Joseph Warren Beach was a professor at the University of Minnesota. He is widely known for his books of literary criticism, among them, The Concept of Nature in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, The Twentieth-Century Novel, and American Fiction 1920-1940. His poems appear frequently in periodicals, and a collection of them has been published by the University of Minnesota Press in the volume, Beginning with Plato.

“This is more than a scholarly investigation: it is a discussion of major changes in a modern religious and moral sensibility.”

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Frederick J. Hoffman, literary critic