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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... sense is a gift of Nature or of Chance , and can be withdrawn . To become Miss America , a girl must have inherited a certain combination of genes and have managed to escape any disfiguring diseases or crippling accident , and , diet as ...
... sense is a gift of Nature or of Chance , and can be withdrawn . To become Miss America , a girl must have inherited a certain combination of genes and have managed to escape any disfiguring diseases or crippling accident , and , diet as ...
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... sense of a disappointing anticlimax . Despite all this , it seems to me wise of Shakespeare to have chosen the form ... sense , but in the sonnets he is intent upon making his verse as melodious , in the simplest and most obvious sense ...
... sense of a disappointing anticlimax . Despite all this , it seems to me wise of Shakespeare to have chosen the form ... sense , but in the sonnets he is intent upon making his verse as melodious , in the simplest and most obvious sense ...
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... senses perceive of the world about us is not all there is to know , and , secondly , by his sense of the powers of evil . This does not mean that he is a Buddhist who regards the sensory world as illusion , or that he would call what we ...
... senses perceive of the world about us is not all there is to know , and , secondly , by his sense of the powers of evil . This does not mean that he is a Buddhist who regards the sensory world as illusion , or that he would call what we ...
Contents
THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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