Forewords and Afterwords

The essays in this collection were written as reviews, mainly forThe New York Review of BooksandThe 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 Valery, 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.Auden, W. H. is the author of 'Forewords and Afterwords' with ISBN 9780679724858 and ISBN 0679724850.