Fiercer Than Tigers: The Life and Works of Rex Warner - Hardcover

Tabachnick, Stephen Ely

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087013552X ISBN 13: 9780870135521

Publisher: Michigan State University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Fiercer than Tigers: The Life and Works of Rex Warner details the personal and intellectual history of a literary legend of the 1930s and 1940s. His unique fictions The Wild Goose Chase (1937), The Professor (1938), and The Aerodrome (1941), remain powerful reflections on the turbulent politics of the period. As he grew increasingly disillusioned with the modern world, Warner turned to ancient myth via retellings and translations, the most famous of which, his Penguin Thucydides (1954), has sold nearly one million copies. Fiercer than Tigers explores the significance of Warner's work and details his friendships with contemporary Greek writers, including his work on the translation that contributed to poet George Seferis's Nobel Prize.

About this title

About the Author

Stephen E. Tabachnick was a student of Rex Warner at the University of Connecticut. He is currently the English Department Chair at the University of Memphis.

From the Back Cover

Considered to be a literary legend in the 1930s and 1940s, Rex Warner s unique fictions remain powerful reflections on the turbulent politics of the period. In the 1940s, Warner grew increasingly disillusioned with the modern world and his writing interests turned to ancient times. Fiercer Than Tigers traces the personal and intellectual history of Rex Warner as it explores the composition, reception, and significance of his works, his friendships with contemporary Greek writers, his personal life, friendships with C. Day Lewis and W.H. Auden, intellectual journeys, and political ideologies. Some of Warner s most noteworthy writings include Thucydides, which sold nearly one million copies, his historical novels including The Young Caesar, Imperial Caesar, Pericles the Athenian and The Converts, his unique fictions, and his collaborative work on the translation that contributed to poet George Seferis s winning of the Nobel Prize. Personal acquaintance with Rex Warner gave Tabachnick access to unpublished sources across the US, Greece, and England.

Edition details

• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087013552X
• ISBN 13: 9780870135521
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 522