| Forewords and Afterwords Contributor(s): Auden, W. H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679724850 ISBN-13: 9780679724858 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1990 Annotation: The 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 809 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.26" W x 8.03" (0.99 lbs) 544 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The 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 Val ry, 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. |