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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... perhaps the greatest evil with which a State can be afflicted . Of the average Victorian equivalent of a welfare worker he takes a dim view . If , he is never tired of insisting , you wish to do anything to raise the cultural and moral ...
... perhaps the greatest evil with which a State can be afflicted . Of the average Victorian equivalent of a welfare worker he takes a dim view . If , he is never tired of insisting , you wish to do anything to raise the cultural and moral ...
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... perhaps the only person in his life whom he could be accused of having treated badly . In the case of Constance Collier , the fault was mostly hers : she needed the kind of hot- blooded passion which she must have known it was not in ...
... perhaps the only person in his life whom he could be accused of having treated badly . In the case of Constance Collier , the fault was mostly hers : she needed the kind of hot- blooded passion which she must have known it was not in ...
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... ( Perhaps , having never suffered from bronchitis , I am biased . ) The setting of one poem is a railway - junction , in another the lyric " I " rides a bus , there are a few references to water - mills , but otherwise there is no ...
... ( Perhaps , having never suffered from bronchitis , I am biased . ) The setting of one poem is a railway - junction , in another the lyric " I " rides a bus , there are a few references to water - mills , but otherwise there is no ...
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THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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