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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... letters to Fanny Brawne , and Beethoven's to his nephew , should either not have been published at all or , like psycho- logical case histories , have been published anonymously . What , then , about the letters of Oscar Wilde ? Is ...
... letters to Fanny Brawne , and Beethoven's to his nephew , should either not have been published at all or , like psycho- logical case histories , have been published anonymously . What , then , about the letters of Oscar Wilde ? Is ...
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... letters to him . I am delighted to hear it . His letters to Moses Jackson have also not yet been made avail- able . I hope they never will be . If the reader of The Letters of A. E. Housman , edited by Mr. Maas , occasionally finds ...
... letters to him . I am delighted to hear it . His letters to Moses Jackson have also not yet been made avail- able . I hope they never will be . If the reader of The Letters of A. E. Housman , edited by Mr. Maas , occasionally finds ...
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... letters to Florence tell us nothing we could not learn from public sources . Furthermore , to a detached reader , nearly all love letters are either boring or embarrassing . Letters between friends who share the same interests and jokes ...
... letters to Florence tell us nothing we could not learn from public sources . Furthermore , to a detached reader , nearly all love letters are either boring or embarrassing . Letters between friends who share the same interests and jokes ...
Contents
THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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