# The Auden Generation

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- Book: [The Auden Generation](https://www.bookquiver.com/samuel-hynes/the-auden-generation) ([The Auden Generation.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/samuel-hynes/the-auden-generation.md))
- Authors: [Samuel Hynes](https://www.bookquiver.com/samuel-hynes)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4646-798-5
- Published: 2011-04-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.