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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... knew that , so long as I was possessed by this spirit , it would be literally impossible for me deliberately to injure another human being . I also knew that the power would , of course , be withdrawn sooner or later and that , when it ...
... knew that , so long as I was possessed by this spirit , it would be literally impossible for me deliberately to injure another human being . I also knew that the power would , of course , be withdrawn sooner or later and that , when it ...
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... Knew there was a book called the Bible ; didn't know what it was about ; didn't mind to know ; knew of such a book to a sartinty , because a young ' oman took one to pop ( pawn ) for an old ' oman what was on the spree a brand new ' un ...
... Knew there was a book called the Bible ; didn't know what it was about ; didn't mind to know ; knew of such a book to a sartinty , because a young ' oman took one to pop ( pawn ) for an old ' oman what was on the spree a brand new ' un ...
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... knew that he would find the financial emolument very convenient . I knew , too , I was not up to a New College scholarship . The motive of the very strenuous work I did in my last six months was primarily the wish to leave school at the ...
... knew that he would find the financial emolument very convenient . I knew , too , I was not up to a New College scholarship . The motive of the very strenuous work I did in my last six months was primarily the wish to leave school at the ...
Contents
THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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