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Hugh Wyston Auden, English-born poet and critic, an American citizen who divides his time between Austria and New York, has selected from his own writings a collection of his literary criticisms, mainly on poetry, which include his 1956 inaugural lecture in his role as Professor of Poetry, Oxford University. Auden's gift for thinking aloud gives his criticisms which range from commentaries on Shakespearian characters to a section entitled "Homage to Igor Stravinsky"-a peculiarly intimate quality. He manages to distill a contemporary meaning from the literature discussed, and communicate it directly to the reader without violating his belief that a critic should not "tell me what I ought to approve or condemn...". Whether he is expounding Marianne Moore's poetry or dissecting D.H. Lawrence, whom he considers both artist and apostle, his lucid observations are often witty and always thought-provoking. These graceful, if occasionally repetitive, essays by one of the greatest of living poets are indispensable to both students and teachers, and make a significant contribution to contemporary literary thought. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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In this volume, W. H. Auden assembled, edited, and arranged the best of his prose writing, including the famous lectures he delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry. The result is less a formal collection of essays than an extended and linked series of observations--on poetry, art, and the observation of life in general. The Dyer's Hand is a surprisingly personal, intimate view of the author's mind, whose central focus is poetry--Shakespearean poetry in particular--but whose province is the author's whole experience of the twentieth century.
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Hugh Wyston Auden, English-born poet and critic, an American citizen who divides his time between Austria and New York, has selected from his own writings a collection of his literary criticisms, mainly on poetry, which include his 1956 inaugural lecture in his role as Professor of Poetry, Oxford University. Auden's gift for thinking aloud gives his criticisms which range from commentaries on Shakespearian characters to a section entitled "Homage to Igor Stravinsky"-a peculiarly intimate quality. He manages to distill a contemporary meaning from the literature discussed, and communicate it directly to the reader without violating his belief that a critic should not "tell me what I ought to approve or condemn...". Whether he is expounding Marianne Moore's poetry or dissecting D.H. Lawrence, whom he considers both artist and apostle, his lucid observations are often witty and always thought-provoking. These graceful, if occasionally repetitive, essays by one of the greatest of living poets are indispensable to both students and teachers, and make a significant contribution to contemporary literary thought. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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In this volume, W. H. Auden assembled, edited, and arranged the best of his prose writing, including the famous lectures he delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry. The result is less a formal collection of essays than an extended and linked series of observations--on poetry, art, and the observation of life in general. The Dyer's Hand is a surprisingly personal, intimate view of the author's mind, whose central focus is poetry--Shakespearean poetry in particular--but whose province is the author's whole experience of the twentieth century.
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