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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... probably as close to the truth as we can get : Their quarrel , if a definite quarrel took place , probably originated not in any single episode , but in the very nature , the secret stresses and strains , of their curiously unequal ...
... probably as close to the truth as we can get : Their quarrel , if a definite quarrel took place , probably originated not in any single episode , but in the very nature , the secret stresses and strains , of their curiously unequal ...
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... probably no less strong than it is today , when , as we know , tight pants and long hair are just as de rigueur for a rebel hippie as a Brooks Brothers suit and a crew cut are for a junior executive . Before considering Leontiev as a ...
... probably no less strong than it is today , when , as we know , tight pants and long hair are just as de rigueur for a rebel hippie as a Brooks Brothers suit and a crew cut are for a junior executive . Before considering Leontiev as a ...
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... probably have written on it , “ Mais oui , je suix pédéraste , ” and sent it back . But for Wilde the approval of Society was es- sential to his self - esteem . Bosie was a horror and responsible for Wilde's ruin , but if at the end of ...
... probably have written on it , “ Mais oui , je suix pédéraste , ” and sent it back . But for Wilde the approval of Society was es- sential to his self - esteem . Bosie was a horror and responsible for Wilde's ruin , but if at the end of ...
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THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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