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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... give any meaning to individuality , it has no proper place for the individual who imposes law , and tends in consequence to give him a superhuman , demiurgic status . Nor can it establish any intelligible connection between the natural ...
... give any meaning to individuality , it has no proper place for the individual who imposes law , and tends in consequence to give him a superhuman , demiurgic status . Nor can it establish any intelligible connection between the natural ...
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... give him instructions or perform tasks for him which he cannot do himself ; that is , in addition to his own powers ... give rude answers and are punished by being imprisoned in ravines . The third brother gives a courteous answer and is ...
... give him instructions or perform tasks for him which he cannot do himself ; that is , in addition to his own powers ... give rude answers and are punished by being imprisoned in ravines . The third brother gives a courteous answer and is ...
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... give up to you or to give you up . . . . I gave up to you always . As a natural result , your claims , your efforts at domination , your exactions grew more and more unreasonable . . . . Knowing that by making a scene you could always ...
... give up to you or to give you up . . . . I gave up to you always . As a natural result , your claims , your efforts at domination , your exactions grew more and more unreasonable . . . . Knowing that by making a scene you could always ...
Contents
THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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A. E. Housman admired aesthetic Arthur Waugh artist beautiful become believe C. P. Cavafy C. S. Lewis Catholic century character child Christian Church comic consciousness creatures criticism culture dream English example existence experience fact faith father feel friends Goethe Greek hand happy hero homosexual human imagine individual intellectual interest Kierkegaard kind knew Leonard Woolf letters Lewis Carroll libretto literary living married means migraine mind moral mystical nature never object opera passion person play poem poet poetry political Pope possible Protestant Protestantism reader reason relation religion religious seems sense sexual Shakespeare social society sonnets soul speak story suffering Sydney Smith T. S. Eliot talent taste tell things thought tion translation Valéry verse Vision of Eros W. H. Auden Wagner Waugh Werther Wilde Woolf words write written wrote young