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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... Sonnets . Mr. W.H. " Meres's reference in 1598 to " sugred Sonnets " by Shakespeare is inconclusive : the word sonnet was often used as a general term for a lyric , and even if Meres was using it in the stricter sense , we do not know ...
... Sonnets . Mr. W.H. " Meres's reference in 1598 to " sugred Sonnets " by Shakespeare is inconclusive : the word sonnet was often used as a general term for a lyric , and even if Meres was using it in the stricter sense , we do not know ...
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... sonnets as we have them , is that they are not in any kind of planned sequence . The only semblance of order is a division into two unequal heaps - Sonnets 1-126 are ad- dressed to a young man , assuming , which is probable but not cer ...
... sonnets as we have them , is that they are not in any kind of planned sequence . The only semblance of order is a division into two unequal heaps - Sonnets 1-126 are ad- dressed to a young man , assuming , which is probable but not cer ...
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... sonnet as such had begun to weaken , and even after Bardolatry had begun , adverse criticism of the sonnets continued . Thus Wordsworth , who was as responsible as anyone for re- habilitating the sonnet as a form ( though he employed ...
... sonnet as such had begun to weaken , and even after Bardolatry had begun , adverse criticism of the sonnets continued . Thus Wordsworth , who was as responsible as anyone for re- habilitating the sonnet as a form ( though he employed ...
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THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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