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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... living in the wrong kind of order cannot have a good will and people living in the right kind cannot have a bad one , then not only will coercion be necessary to establish that order but also its ap- plication will be the ruler's moral ...
... living in the wrong kind of order cannot have a good will and people living in the right kind cannot have a bad one , then not only will coercion be necessary to establish that order but also its ap- plication will be the ruler's moral ...
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... living but was sup- ported all his life by his brother who was by no means a rich man . But when one compares his attitude towards money with that of say , Wagner , or Baudelaire , how immeasurably more decent and self - respecting Van ...
... living but was sup- ported all his life by his brother who was by no means a rich man . But when one compares his attitude towards money with that of say , Wagner , or Baudelaire , how immeasurably more decent and self - respecting Van ...
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... living modestly . Besides social position , an essential thing for him was , as Ross wrote , " contact with comely things , " meaning a certain standard of living - good food , drink , tobacco , clothes . Any deprivation of comfort ...
... living modestly . Besides social position , an essential thing for him was , as Ross wrote , " contact with comely things , " meaning a certain standard of living - good food , drink , tobacco , clothes . Any deprivation of comfort ...
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THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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