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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... universe , we and the universe are already in existence ; all religions must therefore begin with cosmogonies , theogonies , crea- tion myths . In addition , what we call , with detestable snobbery , the Higher Religions base their ...
... universe , we and the universe are already in existence ; all religions must therefore begin with cosmogonies , theogonies , crea- tion myths . In addition , what we call , with detestable snobbery , the Higher Religions base their ...
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... universe was greater than any human imagination could conceive . Nevertheless , the power of love was still greater . Would I , I ask myself , have had precisely this experi- ence if I had not been brought up in a Christian home and ...
... universe was greater than any human imagination could conceive . Nevertheless , the power of love was still greater . Would I , I ask myself , have had precisely this experi- ence if I had not been brought up in a Christian home and ...
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... universe , which means that , as workers , we have to regard the universe etsi deus non daretur : God must be a hidden deity , veiled by His creation . A satisfactory human life , individually or collectively , is pos- sible only if ...
... universe , which means that , as workers , we have to regard the universe etsi deus non daretur : God must be a hidden deity , veiled by His creation . A satisfactory human life , individually or collectively , is pos- sible only if ...
Contents
THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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