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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... asked of the laity than obedience to her rules . The Protestant churches , on the other hand , probably asked more of the average layman than is , humanly speaking , possible . Kierkegaard , himself a Protestant , put the difference ...
... asked of the laity than obedience to her rules . The Protestant churches , on the other hand , probably asked more of the average layman than is , humanly speaking , possible . Kierkegaard , himself a Protestant , put the difference ...
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... asked him to write the story down . At first he said he would think about it , but she continued to pester him until , eventually , he gave his promise to do so . In his diary for November 13 , he notes : " Began writing the fairy ...
... asked him to write the story down . At first he said he would think about it , but she continued to pester him until , eventually , he gave his promise to do so . In his diary for November 13 , he notes : " Began writing the fairy ...
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... asked me , I should have had to submit ! " Max went home and drew a cartoon of Harris , stark naked and with his moustache bristling , looking coyly over his shoulder at Shakespeare who shrinks back at the alarming prospect . Underneath ...
... asked me , I should have had to submit ! " Max went home and drew a cartoon of Harris , stark naked and with his moustache bristling , looking coyly over his shoulder at Shakespeare who shrinks back at the alarming prospect . Underneath ...
Contents
THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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