Forewords and AfterwordsThe essays in this collection were written as reviews, mainly for The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, on books by or about Alexander Pope, Vincent van Gogh, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, and A. E. Housman, or as introductions to editions of the classical Greek writers, the Protestant mystics, Shakespeare, Goethe, Kierkegaard, Tennyson, Grimm and Andersen, Poe, G. K. Chesterton, Paul Valery, and others. Throughout, these prose pieces reveal the same wit and intelligence--as well as the vision--that sparked the brilliance of Auden's poetry. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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... visions of the Blessed Virgin , he ordered them the next time they had such a vision to spit in her face , and it is said that , when they did so , a devil's face was at once revealed . ( 4 ) Though the experience is always given and ...
... visions of the Blessed Virgin , he ordered them the next time they had such a vision to spit in her face , and it is said that , when they did so , a devil's face was at once revealed . ( 4 ) Though the experience is always given and ...
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... vision , which he considers the definitive sign of the natural mystic ; for him , an account which does not speak of this fusion of identities cannot be an account of a gen- uinely mystical experience . I think Professor Zaehner is ...
... vision , which he considers the definitive sign of the natural mystic ; for him , an account which does not speak of this fusion of identities cannot be an account of a gen- uinely mystical experience . I think Professor Zaehner is ...
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... vision , the Vision of Agape has several peculiarities . In the Vision of Dame Kind , there is one human person , the subject , and a multiplicity of creatures whose way of existence is different from his . The relation between him and ...
... vision , the Vision of Agape has several peculiarities . In the Vision of Dame Kind , there is one human person , the subject , and a multiplicity of creatures whose way of existence is different from his . The relation between him and ...
Contents
THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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