Wystan Hugh Auden.ppt

Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) B080121 史晓丹 The introduction of the writer Life Assessment Works Other information The author’s Life The Great Depression 大萧条（The Great Depression），是指1929年至1933年之间全球性的经济大衰退。 萧条的影响比历史上任何一次经济衰退都要来得深远。这次经济萧条是以农产品价格下跌为起点：首先发生在木材的价格上（1928年），这主要是由于苏联的木材竞争的缘故；但更大的灾难是在1929年到来，加拿大小麦的过量生产，美国强迫压低所有农产品产地基本谷物的价格。不管是欧洲、美洲还是澳大利亚，农业衰退由于金融的大崩溃而进一步恶化，尤其在美国，一股投机热导致大量资金从欧洲抽回，随后在1929年10月发生了令人恐慌的华尔街股市暴跌。 牛津大学校徽 The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is the oldest university of all those in countries where English is the peoples first language. Louis MacNeice Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast on 12 September 1907. Both of his parents were originally from the West of Ireland. His father, John, was a Church of Ireland bishop. His mother Elizabeth suffered from poor health. When Louis was very young, the family moved to Carrickfergus. Louis loved the new house and garden, which he described as his “Atlantis.” MacNeice enjoyed a privileged and sheltered early life behind the high hedges of the Rectory, where he played with his beloved sister Elizabeth and wrote his first rhymes. But when MacNeice was just five years old, his mother died. It was a loss he never fully came to terms with, and one which cast a long shadow over the rest of his life. In his Collected Shorter Poems Auden divides his career into four periods. The first period extends from 1927, when he was still an undergraduate, through The Orators(辩护人) of 1932. The “charade(猜字游戏) ” Paid on Both Sides, which along with Poems established Audens reputation in 1930, best reveals the imperfectly fused but fascinating amalgam(混合物) of material from the Icelandic sagas, Old English poetry, public-school stories, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and other psychologists, and schoolboy humor that enters into all these works. Christopher Isherwood Anglo-American novelist and playwright best known for his novels about Berlin in the early 1930s. After working as a secre