From the Back Cover This book contains all the essays and reviews that W. The texts are newly edited from Audens manuscripts by Edward Mendelson, the literary executor of the Auden estate. Auden will provide a unique opportunity to solve the numerous textual problems connected with the severe revisions Auden made in his own works. 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. Auden-the first published book by a man who was to be the dominant literary figure of his generation and one of the centurys greatest poets. About the series: In 1928, Stephen Spender hand-printed thirty copies of a small volume of poems by his friend W. The book will interest not only Audens many admirers, but everyone concerned with twentieth-century literature and culture. 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 editors notes include explanations of contemporary and private allusions. It includes studies of Communism and Christianity audaciously wide-ranging essays on literature, psychology, and politics and writings about gossip, sex, prisons, and schools. Audens early prose ranges from extravagant indiscreet travel diaries through sharply observed critiques of writers from John Skelton to Winston Churchill. 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). Book Synopsis This book contains all the essays and reviews that W.

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