6/4/2023 0 Comments Auden complete worksAuden writes about the imaginary mirrors that everyone carries through life French existentialism and New Yorker cartoons Freud, Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky, and Camus Keats, Cervantes, Melville, Colette, Byron, Virgil, Yeats, Tolkien, and Virginia Woolf opera, ballet, cinema, prosody, and music English and American poetry and society and politics and religion. The variety of style and subject in this book is almost inexhaustible. Among the previously unpublished lectures is a long account of the composition of his poem “Prime,” complete with his comments on early rejected drafts. Two reviews that Auden wrote for the New Yorker, but which the magazine never printed, appear here for the first time, and a series of aphorisms previously published only in a French translation are printed in English. The book includes the complete text of Auden’s first separately published prose book, The Enchafèd Flood, or, The Romantic Iconography of the Sea, followed by more than one hundred separate essays, reviews, introductions, and lectures, as well as a questionnaire (complete with his own answers) about the reader’s fantasy version of Eden. Auden’s prose works from 1949 through 1955, including many little-known essays that exemplify his range, wit, depth, and wisdom.
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