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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... admire the extraor- dinary varied and subtle delivery of the cast , cannot help finding Racine comic . I have known Valéry's poem Ebauche d'un serpent for over twenty - five years , reread it often with increasing admiration and , as I ...
... admire the extraor- dinary varied and subtle delivery of the cast , cannot help finding Racine comic . I have known Valéry's poem Ebauche d'un serpent for over twenty - five years , reread it often with increasing admiration and , as I ...
Page 508
... admired them , as I have always admired anybody who does something well , but I did not envy them , because I knew that their skill could never be mine . ( I was , however , insufferably superior with any- body who , when speaking about ...
... admired them , as I have always admired anybody who does something well , but I did not envy them , because I knew that their skill could never be mine . ( I was , however , insufferably superior with any- body who , when speaking about ...
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... admiring undergraduates have tried to imitate , but their influence has been social and personal rather than ... admired . Making friends was still of much greater importance than the academic studies we were ostensibly there to ...
... admiring undergraduates have tried to imitate , but their influence has been social and personal rather than ... admired . Making friends was still of much greater importance than the academic studies we were ostensibly there to ...
Contents
THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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