Book Release Event: The Island by Nicholas Jenkins

Please join us for a special event to celebrate Nicholas Jenkins's new book, The Island: War and Belonging in Auden's England (Harvard, 2024). A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden’s early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as well as on his shifting beliefs about political belonging in interwar England.

"A beautiful study of a young poet haunted by war. Exemplary scholarship and profound sensitivity combine in…Jenkins’ nuanced reading of the early work of W.H. Auden…A deeply informed, perceptive literary study." — KIRKUS REVIEWS