Nicholas Jenkins
@audenfan.bsky.social
Writer, reader, watcher; prof in English Dept @ Stanford; literary executor of Lincoln Kirstein. Studies Auden’s poetry: The Island (2024) https://a.co/d/4OPODvC and https://amzn.eu/d/8BlFExq
"Look, stranger, at this island now" — these are the opening words of one of #Auden's greatest poems from the 1930s. The "island of strangers" speech by Keir Starmer today shows how uncannily Auden's work articulates a deep and lasting ambivalence in the nation's psyche. 1/2
May 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"Look, stranger, at this island now" — these are the opening words of one of #Auden's greatest poems from the 1930s. The "island of strangers" speech by Keir Starmer today shows how uncannily Auden's work articulates a deep and lasting ambivalence in the nation's psyche. 1/2
Reposted by Nicholas Jenkins
A cracking read. Mary Jo Salter on Nicholas Jenkins on Auden: thesewaneereview.com/articles/poe...
The Poet He Would Become: On Nicholas Jenkins's The Island: War and Belonging in Auden's England
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December 28, 2024 at 6:21 PM
A cracking read. Mary Jo Salter on Nicholas Jenkins on Auden: thesewaneereview.com/articles/poe...
Reposted by Nicholas Jenkins
This was a delight. Hope you all have a chance to listen - and to check out Nicholas's book! @audenfan.bsky.social @harvardpress.bsky.social
In Episode 657, Jacke talks to Nicholas Jenkins (The Island: War and Belonging in Auden's England) about Auden's relationship with the land of his birth, including his preoccupations with the vicissitudes of war, the trials of love, and the problems of identity. #whauden #literature #books
December 2, 2024 at 1:23 PM
This was a delight. Hope you all have a chance to listen - and to check out Nicholas's book! @audenfan.bsky.social @harvardpress.bsky.social
Reposted by Nicholas Jenkins
Here's my review of Nick Jenkins's magnificent book on the young Auden, THE ISLAND:
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Auden’s Island
A new book finds Auden negotiating and renegotiating his relationship with the island on which he was born.
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November 23, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Here's my review of Nick Jenkins's magnificent book on the young Auden, THE ISLAND:
hedgehogreview.com/issues/in-ne...
hedgehogreview.com/issues/in-ne...
War and belonging, visions and nightmares, love and estrangement (plus a drunken wedding and T. S. Eliot's gift of a fake human ear). The Island, my book on the poetry of the young #Auden, is available for pre-order. a.co/d/8u28cz5 tinyurl.com/54fmxu5d @Harvard_Press
February 8, 2024 at 2:53 PM
War and belonging, visions and nightmares, love and estrangement (plus a drunken wedding and T. S. Eliot's gift of a fake human ear). The Island, my book on the poetry of the young #Auden, is available for pre-order. a.co/d/8u28cz5 tinyurl.com/54fmxu5d @Harvard_Press