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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... tell us . Though Pope was often devious and unscrupulous in his dealings , his life was surprisingly free from scandal . In his youth , he may sometimes have visited brothels - given his physical disadvantages , what more romantic ...
... tell us . Though Pope was often devious and unscrupulous in his dealings , his life was surprisingly free from scandal . In his youth , he may sometimes have visited brothels - given his physical disadvantages , what more romantic ...
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... tell everything , what he did tell was true enough . He did work very hard and Italy did do him a lot of good . Any writer will find Italian Journey fascinating for what Goethe says about his own methods of working . He would compose ...
... tell everything , what he did tell was true enough . He did work very hard and Italy did do him a lot of good . Any writer will find Italian Journey fascinating for what Goethe says about his own methods of working . He would compose ...
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... Tell him that the wish to include a glimpse of my per- sonality in a literary article is low , unworthy , and Ameri- can . Tell him that some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man . Tell ...
... Tell him that the wish to include a glimpse of my per- sonality in a literary article is low , unworthy , and Ameri- can . Tell him that some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man . Tell ...
Contents
THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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