Dr. C D Verma Livres

Look Back in Anger was first performed in Britain at the Royal Court Theatre on 8 May 1956: it immediately became the outstanding dramatic success. Since then John Osborne gained worldwide attention as one of the most provocative and gifted dramatists writing in English in the later -- half of the 20th century. It is a genuine drama about real events and people. In fact, with Osbornes Look Back in Anger officially began a new Movement in the British drama. The hero of the play, Jimmy Porter, who hails from the working class, is provided with an intellect which only shows him that everything that might have justified pride in the old England (its opportunity, adventure, material well-being, etc.) has disappeared without being replaced by anything worthwhile. That is why this angry young man fumes, rages, nags at a world which he finds as out of joint. Undoubtedly, Look Back in Anger, is painful in its accuracy and immediacy. The present book has brought to the surface the hidden contours of the thematic layers as we delve deep into the text and lucidly examine its socio-human nuances.

Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) is a widely read man, well-versed with wellknown intellectuals, such as Freud, Marx, Lawrence, who immensely inspired his poetry. So magnetic was Audens name and presence that by 1939, then only 32 years old, he had become something of a monument of contemporary poets. Throughout the 1930s Auden had been recognised by the poets who are often thought of as belonging to Audens group Cecil Day Lewis, Auden himself, MacNeice and Stephen Spender. There is no gainsaying the fact that Auden had influenced many poets in Britain and America, who specifically assimilated his scientific outlook and technique of approach, and this is all that a great poet needs for his writing. He is a sort of musician and ritualist which makes Auden a poet with a difference. While teaching modern poetry to B.A (Hons.) and M.A. English students I invariably felt that the students, by and large, found Auden to be a difficult poet, and obscure. In this book, an attempt has been made to make Auden comprehensible and interesting to the students.