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 79
... concerned with and confronted by every day in his consulting room is be- havior , not deeds . But a biographer is concerned with deeds , with those events in the life of his subject which distinguish it from the lives of all other human ...
... concerned with and confronted by every day in his consulting room is be- havior , not deeds . But a biographer is concerned with deeds , with those events in the life of his subject which distinguish it from the lives of all other human ...
Page 90
... concern to himself and , he hopes , to his personal friends , but he does not think it is or ought to be of any concern to the public . The one thing a writer , for example , hopes for , is ... concerned , the certain ] 90 [ W.H. AUDEN.
... concern to himself and , he hopes , to his personal friends , but he does not think it is or ought to be of any concern to the public . The one thing a writer , for example , hopes for , is ... concerned , the certain ] 90 [ W.H. AUDEN.
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... concerned , I strongly suspect that , for the past fifty years , the two Alice books and The Hunting of the Snark have headed it . How do American readers react ? Though nearly all the Ameri- cans I know personally loved Lewis Carroll ...
... concerned , I strongly suspect that , for the past fifty years , the two Alice books and The Hunting of the Snark have headed it . How do American readers react ? Though nearly all the Ameri- cans I know personally loved Lewis Carroll ...
Contents
THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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