| Author: | Samuel Hynes | ISBN: | 9781446467985 |
| Publisher: | Random House | Publication: | April 30, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Vintage Digital | Language: | English |
| Author: | Samuel Hynes |
| ISBN: | 9781446467985 |
| Publisher: | Random House |
| Publication: | April 30, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Vintage Digital |
| Language: | English |
This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. The pace of the time itself, the sense of time passing and an end approaching gave a special quality to the Thirties. The public world pressed insistently on the private world. For those who came of literary age - Auden, Day Lewis, MacNeice, Spender, Graham Greene, Isherwood and Orwell among them - writing became a form of action. In the process a generation discovered itself and found its own expression.
This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. The pace of the time itself, the sense of time passing and an end approaching gave a special quality to the Thirties. The public world pressed insistently on the private world. For those who came of literary age - Auden, Day Lewis, MacNeice, Spender, Graham Greene, Isherwood and Orwell among them - writing became a form of action. In the process a generation discovered itself and found its own expression.
