The Age of Anxiety
I can’t disguise how pleased I am with this. The whole project has been exciting and gratifying, but I...
Tag: W. H. Auden
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thesis for disputation
“Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the...
thesis for disputation
“There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and...
The Age of Anxiety
My critical edition of W. H. Auden’s long poem The Age of Anxiety will be out later this year, I hope, though it...
personal liking
The critical judgment “This book is good or bad” implies good or bad at all times, but in relation to the readers...
a little more anxiety
It’s interesting to consider how the kind of work I’ve just been doing will change as more and more books assume...
anxiety’s end
Posting has been light around here for a number of reasons, chief among them being (a) my recovery from surgery and (b)...
counting
Read James Poulos’s post on lists. Done? Okay, now read these selections from W. H. Auden’s essay “Infernal...
how to run a literary estate
For the past couple of years I have been working on the most challenging — and maybe the most fascinating — project...
The Guilty Vicarage
I’ve been reading a number of mysteries lately — something about which I may have more to say later on...