Wystan and Chester
A Personal Memoir of W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman
Thekla Clark
ISBN: | 9780231107068 |
Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
Published: | 23 August, 1996 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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Wystan and Chester
A Personal Memoir of W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman
Thekla Clark
Though Thekla Clark turned down a marriage proposal from W.H. Auden in the early 1950s, she remained close to the poet and his companion Chester Kallman until Auden's death in 1973. In memoir, Clark follows the lives of this unconventional couple, recalling their home on the Italian island of Ischia, their romps through Europe, and the more troubling times Auden spent in New York. While Kallman embraced his homosexuality and was campily outrageous, Auden was uncomfortable in his and became conservative and conventional. Despite their differences, or maybe because of them, their relationship endured--they met in 1939 and Kallman died less than two years after Auden, seemingly of a broken heart.
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