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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... wrote and why . ( Such knowl- edge , needless to say , does not explain why he wrote so well . ) For example , in the concluding lines of a poem probably written before 1715 , Pope ( or so I used to think ) describes Addison as ...
... wrote and why . ( Such knowl- edge , needless to say , does not explain why he wrote so well . ) For example , in the concluding lines of a poem probably written before 1715 , Pope ( or so I used to think ) describes Addison as ...
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... wrote recently in Delos : The claims . . . have , I think , been granted a great deal too readily . It is about the same length , but its lumbering gait is at the furthest possible remove from the supply ar- ticulated line of Homer ...
... wrote recently in Delos : The claims . . . have , I think , been granted a great deal too readily . It is about the same length , but its lumbering gait is at the furthest possible remove from the supply ar- ticulated line of Homer ...
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... wrote , he grew a beard , he visited Queen Victoria at Osborne , he built another house in Surrey , he went on writing , he visited the Queen at Windsor , he was gazetted to the Peerage , he still wrote . On October 8 , 1892 , he died ...
... wrote , he grew a beard , he visited Queen Victoria at Osborne , he built another house in Surrey , he went on writing , he visited the Queen at Windsor , he was gazetted to the Peerage , he still wrote . On October 8 , 1892 , he died ...
Contents
THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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