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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... experience , what is required of me is neither faith nor doubt but a self - forgetful concentration of my attention upon the experience which is only mine in the sense that it has been given to me and not to someone else . The I is only ...
... experience , what is required of me is neither faith nor doubt but a self - forgetful concentration of my attention upon the experience which is only mine in the sense that it has been given to me and not to someone else . The I is only ...
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... experience . But mystical experiences , whether concerned with God or with His creatures , have , of all experiences , the most right to be called firsthand , as owing least to either tradi- tion or impersonal ratiocination . II There ...
... experience . But mystical experiences , whether concerned with God or with His creatures , have , of all experiences , the most right to be called firsthand , as owing least to either tradi- tion or impersonal ratiocination . II There ...
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... experience show a change ? As an example of the difficulty of separating observation from interpretation of experience , let me take a trivial personal one . Many people have given accounts of what they experienced while having a tooth ...
... experience show a change ? As an example of the difficulty of separating observation from interpretation of experience , let me take a trivial personal one . Many people have given accounts of what they experienced while having a tooth ...
Contents
THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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