'Praise for previous volumes: 'The only way to get at Auden as he happened, year by year, bit by bit, and not as he, or his later biographers, want us to think of him.'' -Tom D'Evelyn, Boston Book Review 'Praise for previous volumes: 'The articles will delight any reader with their wit, charm, and elegance.'' -Charles Rosen, New York Review of Books To say that Princeton University Press, in producing such handsome and usable volumes, has matched Mendelson's editorial standards is to give high praise indeed.' -Stefan Collini, London Review of Books As an editor, Mendelson is meticulous, judicious and quite extraordinarily thorough.

'No one could take for anything less than an extremely accomplished, fluent, professional writer.

'Praise for previous volumes: 'A feast of language and insight.'' -Arthur Kirsch, Washington Post Book World 'Praise for previous volumes: 'No major writer's complete works are more fun to read.'' ( Publishers Weekly) about himself and his work.' -Jeremy Noel-Tod, Literary Review 'Mendelson's editions of Auden's works are among the great achievements of modern literary scholarship and his introduction here is a masterpiece of the editor's tactful art, guiding readers through the heaped documents to those where the poet writes most significantly. Edward Mendelson deserves gratitude and unmitigated praise.' -Seamus Perry, Times Literary Supplement 'One of Truthdig’s 2015 Books of the Year' 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. The text includes corrections and revisions that Auden marked in personal copies of his work and that are published here for the first time.

It also features late essays and reviews that in many cases present lightly disguised autobiographies, among them the most detailed account of his sexuality, in 'Papa Was a Wise Old Sly-Boots.' The appendixes gather lectures and public talks that are otherwise unpublished or unavailable.Įdward Mendelson’s comprehensive notes provide biographical and historical explanations of obscure references. It contains the full text of the only book that he regarded as an autobiography, A Certain World, in which he portrayed himself by selecting and commenting on writings by others that most affected him throughout his life. Auden's prose displays a great writer’s mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. The final volume of the complete prose of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers

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