This volume contains all of W. H. Auden's prose works from 1949
through 1955, including many little-known essays that exemplify his
range, wit, depth, and wisdom. The book includes the complete text
of Auden's first separately published prose book, "The Enchafed
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. 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. Among the previously unpublished lectures is a long
account of the composition of his poem "Prime," complete with his
comments on early rejected drafts.
The variety of style and subject in this book is almost
inexhaustible. Auden 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 introduction by Edward Mendelson places the essays in
biographical and historical context, and the extensive textual
notes explain obscure contemporary references and provide an
often-amusing history of Auden's work as an editor of anthologies
and a series of books by younger poets."
General
Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden |
Release date: |
2008 |
First published: |
2007 |
Authors: |
W.H Auden
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Editors: |
Edward Mendelson
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Dimensions: |
235 x 152 x 61mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
824 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-13326-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-691-13326-3 |
Barcode: |
9780691133263 |
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