Prose, 1939-1948

"In one of these essays, a foreword to a book in the Yale Younger Poet series, Auden says that 'to write poetry a man must be endowed with two quite distinct gifts, a love of language and a private vision of the public world.' Auden displays both these gifts in enough abundance in this volume to suggest that he was as great an essayist as he was a poet. The collection, which can be dipped into as well as read as a whole, is a feast of language and insight, and a brilliant, if indirect, cultural history of the World War II period as well as an often prophetic look at our own."Auden, W. H. is the author of 'Prose, 1939-1948' with ISBN 9780691089355 and ISBN 0691089353.