Name: Forewords and Afterwords
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Author: W. H. Auden
ISBN: 9780679724858

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Vintage

Author

W. H. Auden

Year

1990

Language

English

Pages

529

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.95

ISBN

0679724850

ISBN13

9780679724858

Synopsis "Forewords and Afterwords"

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 Valéry, 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.