W. H. Auden: Prose, 1963-1968 (5) - Rilegato

Auden, W. H.

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ISBN 10: 0691151717 ISBN 13: 9780691151717

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

This fifth volume of W. H. Auden's prose displays a great writer’s mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. It contains his most personally revealing essays, the ones in which he wrote for the first time about the full history of his family life, his sexuality, and the development of his moral and religious beliefs. Among these works are the lightly disguised autobiographies that appear in long essays on the Protestant mystics and on Shakespeare’s sonnets. The book also features the full text of his T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, Secondary Worlds, and many unpublished or unavailable lectures and speeches.

Edward Mendelson’s introduction and comprehensive notes provide biographical and historical explanations of obscure references. The text includes corrections and revisions that Auden marked in personal copies of his work and that are published here for the first time.

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Recensione:

Praise for previous volumes: "The articles will delight any reader with their wit, charm, and elegance." --Charles Rosen, New York Review of Books

Praise for previous volumes: "When you add in the volumes already devoted to plays, libretti, poems, it becomes hard to avoid describing the whole enterprise as heroic. In fact it could also be described as unique, for no other twentieth-century English poet has been so fully and patiently honoured." --Frank Kermode, London Review of Books

Praise for previous volumes: "No major writer’s complete works are more fun to read." --Publishers Weekly

Praise for previous volumes: "A feast of language and insight." --Arthur Kirsch, Washington Post Book World

Praise for previous volumes: "The only way to get at Auden as he happened, year by year, bit by bit, and not as he, or his later biographers, want us to think of him." --Tom D’Evelyn, Boston Book Review

L'autore:

Edward Mendelson is the literary executor of the Estate of W. H. Auden and the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His books include Early Auden, Later Auden, The Things That Matter, and Lives of the New York Intellectuals.

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0691151717
• ISBN 13: 9780691151717
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 561
• Redattore: Mendelson Edward