The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose, Volume V: 1963–1968 (The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, 5) - Hardcover

Auden, W. H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691151717 ISBN 13: 9780691151717

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2015

Synopsis

The penultimate volume of the complete prose of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century

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 The book also features the full text of his T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, Secondary Worlds, and many unpublished or unavailable lectures and speeches.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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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691151717
• ISBN 13: 9780691151717
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 608
• Editor: Mendelson Edward