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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... feel ( e.g. , God is present ) or think ( e.g. , God is righteous ) is caused by my relation to God , this belief is ... feeling of which I have immediate certainty is one which I would approximately describe as sonship , I may speak of ...
... feel ( e.g. , God is present ) or think ( e.g. , God is righteous ) is caused by my relation to God , this belief is ... feeling of which I have immediate certainty is one which I would approximately describe as sonship , I may speak of ...
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... feeling of unworthiness is strong enough , he may feel , again subconsciously , a contempt for anyone who offers him affection : if his father was right to reject him , then anyone who accepts him is a fool and deserves to be tormented ...
... feeling of unworthiness is strong enough , he may feel , again subconsciously , a contempt for anyone who offers him affection : if his father was right to reject him , then anyone who accepts him is a fool and deserves to be tormented ...
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... feeling intensely and at the same time knowing that there's no importance in that feeling . Or is there , as I sometimes think , more importance than ever ? " It was , I feel , a very happy idea to confine the selections from her diary ...
... feeling intensely and at the same time knowing that there's no importance in that feeling . Or is there , as I sometimes think , more importance than ever ? " It was , I feel , a very happy idea to confine the selections from her diary ...
Contents
THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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