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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... published - whether Shakespeare gave copies to some friend who then betrayed him , or whether some enemy stole them - we shall probably never know . Of one thing I am certain : Shakespeare must have been horrified when they were published ...
... published - whether Shakespeare gave copies to some friend who then betrayed him , or whether some enemy stole them - we shall probably never know . Of one thing I am certain : Shakespeare must have been horrified when they were published ...
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... published Poems , which contained an epigram attacking Christopher North for his review of the 1830 volume . Partly on this account , and partly , perhaps , out of irrita- tion at the uncritical admiration of Tennyson's friends ...
... published Poems , which contained an epigram attacking Christopher North for his review of the 1830 volume . Partly on this account , and partly , perhaps , out of irrita- tion at the uncritical admiration of Tennyson's friends ...
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... published at all or , like psycho- logical case histories , have been published anonymously . What , then , about the letters of Oscar Wilde ? Is their publica- tion justified ? Somewhat to my surprise , I find myself saying yes . Yeats ...
... published at all or , like psycho- logical case histories , have been published anonymously . What , then , about the letters of Oscar Wilde ? Is their publica- tion justified ? Somewhat to my surprise , I find myself saying yes . Yeats ...
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THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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