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Volume IV of Auden's prose . . . is, like the others, edited by Edward J. Mendelson with unparalleled care and discretion, but it allows us an additional pleasure, since The Dyer's Hand occupies its last major part. Thus we can read that book as Auden wanted us to, before or after we look at the rest of the prose . . . or we could just dip and skim in the whole volume, go away and come back, guided by names and titles and chance--there's plenty to keep us busy. -- London Review of Books
This fourth volume of W. H. Auden's prose, edited and introduced by Edward Mendelson with customary mastery, covers a mere six years of the poet's life. But they were eventful years for him, personally and intellectually. . . . The whole of The Dyer's Hand appears in this volume of the Complete Works, and most of what Auden drew from in making up the book is here, too, in its original and unrevised form. -- Alan Jacobs, Books & Culture
I can give this collection a strong recommendation. -- Alfred Corn, Gay and Lesbian Review
Praise for the previous volume: "Prose, Volume III is wonderfully edited, like all the many editions of Auden supervised by Edward Mendelson. . . . [T]he articles will delight any reader with their wit, charm, and elegance. -- Charles Rosen, New York Review of Books
Praise for the previous volume: "When you add in the volumes already devoted to plays, libretti, poems, it becomes hard to avoid describing the whole enterprise as heroic. In fact it could also be described as unique, for no other twentieth-century English poet has been so fully and patiently honoured. -- Frank Kermode, London Review of Books
Praise for the previous volume: "No major writer's complete works are more fun to read. -- Publishers Weekly
This fourth volume of W. H. Auden's prose, edited and introduced by Edward Mendelson with customary mastery, covers a mere six years of the poet's life. But they were eventful years for him, personally and intellectually. . . . The whole of The Dyer's Hand appears in this volume of the Complete Works, and most of what Auden drew from in making up the book is here, too, in its original and unrevised form. -- Alan Jacobs, Books & Culture
I can give this collection a strong recommendation. -- Alfred Corn, Gay and Lesbian Review
Praise for the previous volume: "Prose, Volume III is wonderfully edited, like all the many editions of Auden supervised by Edward Mendelson. . . . [T]he articles will delight any reader with their wit, charm, and elegance. -- Charles Rosen, New York Review of Books
Praise for the previous volume: "When you add in the volumes already devoted to plays, libretti, poems, it becomes hard to avoid describing the whole enterprise as heroic. In fact it could also be described as unique, for no other twentieth-century English poet has been so fully and patiently honoured. -- Frank Kermode, London Review of Books
Praise for the previous volume: "No major writer's complete works are more fun to read. -- Publishers Weekly
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This fourth volume of W. H. Auden's prose provides a unique picture of this legendary writer's mind and art when he was at the height of his powers, from 1956 through 1962, including the years when he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford. The volume includes his best-known and most important prose collection, The Dyer's Hand, as well as scores of essays, reviews, and lectures on subjects ranging from J. R. R. Tolkien and Martin Luther to psychedelic drugs, cooking, and Homer. Much of the material has never been collected in book form, and some selections, such as the witty orations Auden wrote for ceremonies at Oxford University, are almost entirely unknown.
Edward Mendelson's introduction and comprehensive notes provide biographical and historical explanations of all obscure references. The text includes extensive corrections and revisions that Auden marked in personal copies of his work and which are printed here for the first time.
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Better when seen whole, 8 July 2011
By Michael Greenebaum - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose, Volume IV, 1956-1962: 4 (Hardcover)
This is the latest in the series so meticulously edited and introduced by Edward Mendelson. This volume contains the complete Dyer's Hand, plus the reviews, criticism and commentaries that Auden wrote mostly for the income they provided. I think Auden's prose improves when taken in large doses. The eccentricities and dogmatisms become less important and the essential humaneness and compassion dominate. Auden's values- love and truth - underscore everything. His prose is not difficult, but it is also not expository. He read everything and expected his readers to match his erudition. For this reason, he sends me back to the works he talks about, and they in turn send me back to him. This is a volume for readers to keep at the ready as a source of ongoing nourishment.
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Phil in the mountains of Kyushu, Japan, 6 May 2011
By Phil in the mountains of Kyushu, Japan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose, Volume IV, 1956-1962: 4 (Hardcover)
Thank you for your role, along with lit executor Edward Mendelson, publisher, the entire online crew through all recent years, computer makers, Amazon, lit reviewers -- everybody interlinked in this wide culture Auden himself never saw coming -- for helping to keep alive and distributed Auden's great centrality in what we have left of a culture otherwise besieged and gone mad to the numeracy and ethics-blind world of silo "higher ed," standardized testing K-12, lawyers, lusters of war, bankers, financiers, realtors, and all others from the biz ed depraved.
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The Dyer's Hand et al., 21 Feb 2012
By Nicholas Mirra - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose, Volume IV, 1956-1962: 4 (Hardcover)
Magnificent complete edition continues. And as usual exemplary editing from Edward Mendelson, Auden's literary executor. Can be read straight through or browsed almost anywhere.
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