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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... passion for truth or health . When the passion for truth is lacking , dialectic becomes a technique for avoiding coming to any conclusion just as , when the passion for health is lacking , self - examination is used to justify neurosis ...
... passion for truth or health . When the passion for truth is lacking , dialectic becomes a technique for avoiding coming to any conclusion just as , when the passion for health is lacking , self - examination is used to justify neurosis ...
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... Passion . The aesthetic religion regards the passions not as belonging to the self , but as divine visitations ... passion - Aphrodite is not ] 172 [ W.H. AUDEN.
... Passion . The aesthetic religion regards the passions not as belonging to the self , but as divine visitations ... passion - Aphrodite is not ] 172 [ W.H. AUDEN.
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... passion , that is , the passionate unrest of a self that lacks all passion ( The Man of the Crowd ) . The horror tales and the tales of ratiocination belong together , for the heroes of both exist as unitary states - Roderick Usher ...
... passion , that is , the passionate unrest of a self that lacks all passion ( The Man of the Crowd ) . The horror tales and the tales of ratiocination belong together , for the heroes of both exist as unitary states - Roderick Usher ...
Contents
THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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