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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Page 93
... appeared on the sky . It is not , it seems to me , possible to believe that , after going through the experiences described in Sonnets 40 and 42 , Shakespeare would write either Sonnet 53 , or 105 , In all external grace , you have some ...
... appeared on the sky . It is not , it seems to me , possible to believe that , after going through the experiences described in Sonnets 40 and 42 , Shakespeare would write either Sonnet 53 , or 105 , In all external grace , you have some ...
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... appeared to be entirely emaciated " and seemed to have a weak stomach , " expressed her con- cern for his want of appetite , " at which Voltaire gave her " so indelicate and brutal an account of the occasion of his disorder contracted ...
... appeared to be entirely emaciated " and seemed to have a weak stomach , " expressed her con- cern for his want of appetite , " at which Voltaire gave her " so indelicate and brutal an account of the occasion of his disorder contracted ...
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... appeared again and stayed till it was time to dress for dinner . You dined with me either at the Savoy or at Tite Street . We did not sep- arate as a rule till after midnight , as supper at Willis's had to wind up the entrancing day ...
... appeared again and stayed till it was time to dress for dinner . You dined with me either at the Savoy or at Tite Street . We did not sep- arate as a rule till after midnight , as supper at Willis's had to wind up the entrancing day ...
Contents
THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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