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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... physical growth , we seem to be born with no behavior - directing instincts ; even the most elementary behavior required for physical survival and re- producing our kind has to be learned by each of us , either through imitation of or ...
... physical growth , we seem to be born with no behavior - directing instincts ; even the most elementary behavior required for physical survival and re- producing our kind has to be learned by each of us , either through imitation of or ...
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... physical disturbances . I am aware , of course , that many , perhaps the ma- jority , of those whose achievements in this world , in art , in science , in politics , have earned them the right to be called great men , have suffered from ...
... physical disturbances . I am aware , of course , that many , perhaps the ma- jority , of those whose achievements in this world , in art , in science , in politics , have earned them the right to be called great men , have suffered from ...
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... physical sacrifice of his life . Both notions are , of course , highly perilous . The man who says , " Not I , but God in me " is always in great danger of imag- ining that he is God , and some critics have not failed to accuse ...
... physical sacrifice of his life . Both notions are , of course , highly perilous . The man who says , " Not I , but God in me " is always in great danger of imag- ining that he is God , and some critics have not failed to accuse ...
Contents
THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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