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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... young lays of love : what godlike power Hast thou not power upon ? Take to thy grace Me , thy vowed soldier , who do bear thy yoke As ' twere a wreath of roses , yet is heavier Than lead itself , stings more than nettles . I have never ...
... young lays of love : what godlike power Hast thou not power upon ? Take to thy grace Me , thy vowed soldier , who do bear thy yoke As ' twere a wreath of roses , yet is heavier Than lead itself , stings more than nettles . I have never ...
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... young pick- pocket ( IV , 316-324 ) . These have led me to revise my critical notions of Dickens , whom I had always thought of as a fantastic creator of over - life - size characters ; it is evident that he was much more of a " realist ...
... young pick- pocket ( IV , 316-324 ) . These have led me to revise my critical notions of Dickens , whom I had always thought of as a fantastic creator of over - life - size characters ; it is evident that he was much more of a " realist ...
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... young people of prominent houses , amid all the delicacy and politeness that they kept showing to him , the son of the King Seleucus Philopator— as he sensed however that there was always a covert indifference to the hellenized ...
... young people of prominent houses , amid all the delicacy and politeness that they kept showing to him , the son of the King Seleucus Philopator— as he sensed however that there was always a covert indifference to the hellenized ...
Contents
THE GREEKS AND US | 3 |
AUGUSTUS TO AUGUSTINE | 33 |
THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS | 49 |
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