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This book contains all the essays and reviews that W. H. Auden wrote during the years when he was living in England, and also includes the full original versions of his two illustrated travel books, Letters from Iceland (written in collaboration with Louis MacNeice) and Journey to a War (written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood). Auden's early prose ranges from extravagant indiscreet travel diaries through sharply observed critiques of writers from John Skelton to Winston Churchill. It includes studies of Communism and Christianity; audaciously wide-ranging essays on literature, psychology, and politics; and writings about gossip, sex, prisons, and schools.

The editor's notes include explanations of contemporary and private allusions. The long "Last Will and Testament" written in verse by Auden and MacNeice, which Evelyn Waugh described as a "gossip column," is annotated in full. The book will interest not only Auden's many admirers, but everyone concerned with twentieth-century literature and culture.

About the series:

In 1928, Stephen Spender hand-printed thirty copies of a small volume of poems by his friend W. H. Auden--the first published book by a man who was to become the dominant literary figure of his generation and one of the century's greatest poets. Sixty years later, Princeton University Press inaugurated an edition of the complete works of Auden, which is intended to serve as the definitive text for all the works Auden published or intended to publish in the form in which he expected to see them printed: his plays and other drama, libretti, essays and reviews, and poems.

The Complete Works of W. H. Auden will provide a unique opportunity to solve the numerous textual problems connected with the severe revisions Auden made in his own works. The texts are newly edited from Auden's manuscripts by Edward Mendelson, the literary executor of the Auden estate. ... Read more

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Aphorisms are not witticisms or epigrams, but general truths succinctly stated. This anthology contains 3000 quotations from a wide variety of aphorists ranging from Heraclitus to Ogden Nash, as well as Jane Austen, Pascal, Freud, Goethe, the Duke of Wellington, Shaw, Jean Cocteau and many more. ... Read more

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A liturgical drama set to music, reconstructed from a medieval manuscript in the British Museum. The edition presents a version of the work which is both historically accurate and creates a living performance. No polyphony or harmony has been added, but doubling in unison or in octaves is usedextensively. There are 15 parts for solo voices (a mixture of sopranos, tenors, baritones, basses) and a choir of sopranos and men's voices. The narration is by W. H. Auden. ... Read more

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An inexpensive score for a great liturgical drama
If you're a student of early music, there are various books you shouldn't be without. I'd say this is one of them; if it isn't, it comes close, and how can you beat the price?What you have here is an inexpensive score forone of the great liturgical dramas of the Middle Ages, with lyrics done invery legible calligraphy, with commentary on the play and its historicalbackground by Noah Greenberg himself. If I were to suggest improvements,they'd be two in number: first, a binding that would lie flat, and second,PLEASE update the address to which one should write for permission toperform the play.(At the very least, it should use the ZIP code that wasadopted a few years after 1958 when the book was first published.) ... Read more

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One of the best collections of aphorisms there is
The aphorisms collected and edited here by Auden and Kronenberger are drawn from more than four hundred of the West's major authors. The book is organized in chapters, "Humanity " "Religion and God" "Nature"" Education"" Society" "The Sexes" "Love, Marriage and Friendship" The Professions" "History " " Action" "Science" " The Arts" "States and Government" " The Life of the Mind" " Life's Minor Pleasures and Trials" " Ages of Man"
It seems almost superflous to give good examples , since every page of the work is rich with them. Who loves aphorisms will love this work. ... Read more

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Dedicated to Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr. 31 poems collected in a lovely, slender book. ... Read more