Auden, W. H., Mendelson, Edward 　著

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Preface ix Acknowledgements xi Introduction xiii The Text of ThisEdition xxxiii ESSAYS AND REVIEWS, 939-948 The Public v. the Late MrWilliam Butler Yeats 3 A Great Democrat 8 Whitman and Arnold 11 Christianon the Left 13 Effective Democracy 15 How Not to Be a Genius 18 YoungBritish Writers--On the Way Up (by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood) 21Rilke in English 25 Democracy Is Hard 27 The Dyer's Hand 29 Heretics 32Louis MacNeice 35 Inside China 35 Jacob and the Angel 37 Poet andPolitician 39 A Literary Transference 42 The Icon and the Portrait 49Tradition and Value 51 Against Romanticism 53 The Double Focus: Sandburg'sLincoln 55 Empirics for the Million 57 A Review of How to Read a Book, byMortimer J.Adler 59 Yeats: Master of Diction 61 Romantic or Free? 63 "WhatIs Culture?" 72 Poet in Wartime 73 Open Letter to Knut Hamsun 76 Mimesisand Allegory 78 Who Shall Plan the Planners? 88 Criticism in a Mass Society90 A Note on Order 100 Symposium [on the role of intellectuals in politicalaffairs ]104 Where Are We Now? 104 Tract for the Times 108 The WanderingJew 110 All about Ida 114 James Joyce and Richard Wagner 115 Yale DailyNews Banquet Address 119 A Review of Open House, by Theodore Roethke 125The Masses Defined 127 Opera on an American Legend 129 The Means of Grace131 Ambiguous Answers 134 Eros and Agape 137 A Grammar of Assent 141 LastWords 143 La Trahison d'un Clerc 148 W. H. Auden Speaks of Poetry and TotalWar 152 The Rewards of Patience 153 The Fabian Figaro 158 Lecture Notes[I] 161 Lecture Notes [II] 163 Lecture Notes [III] 165 Lecture Notes [IV]168 Lecture Notes [V] 170 An Unbiased Biography of Yeats and His World 173Vocation and Society 175 Auden Calls "Night" Fun but Not Art 183 PurelySubjective 184 The Poet of the Encirclement 198 Introduction to A Selectionfrom the Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson 203 Student Government-or Bombs? 212A Preface to Kierkegaard 213 A Knight of the Infinite 218 In Poor Shape221 Children of Abraham 224 Augustus to Augustine 226 William Shakespeare,in a Wartime Format 231 Beauty Is Everlasting 234 The Giving of Thanks 236Agee on Films 239 In Praise of the Brothers Grimm 239 Henry James and theDedicated 242 Foghorn Bellow, Sly Bitchery, Spark Shakespeare's Worst Play244 Foreword to The Flower of Grass, by Emile Cammaerts 246 Mr Welch 251 AToast 253 Concerning the Village of Gschaid, and Its Mountain 254 TheDay-by-Day Jottings of Piotr Tchaikovsky 256 The Christian Tragic Hero 258The Guilty Vicarage 261 Introduction to The American Scene, by Henry James270 K's Quest 282 As Hateful Ares Bids 286 Mozart and the Middlebrow 290Red Lizards and White Stallions 292 Foreword to Poems, by Joan Murray 295Address on Henry James 296 Introduction to Slick but Not Streamlined, byJohn Betjeman 303 Introduction to Intimate Journals, by Charles Baudelaire307 Old Formulae in a New Light 315 Some Notes on D. H. Lawrence 317 TheEssence of Dante 322 The Mythical Sex 325 Foreword to A Beginning, byRobert Horan 332 I Like It Cold 334 Mystic-and Prophet 337 Squares andOblongs 339 Philosophy with Courage and Imagination 351 Introduction to ThePortable Greek Reader 354 The Ironic Hero 377 Yeats as an Example 384Introduction to Tales of Grimm and Andersen 390 The Poet's Life-and His Work398 Opera Addict 400 Foreword to The Grasshopper's Man, by Rosalie Moore403 APPENDICES I "The Prolific and the Devourer" 409 II Auden asAnthologist and Editor 459 III Courses, Syllabi, Examinations, and aCurriculum 464 IV Reported Lectures 481 V Endorsements, a CommissionedText, and a List 498 VI Auden on the Air 501 VII Lost and Unwritten Work506 TEXTUAL NOTES Essays and Reviews, 1939-948 511 Index of Titles, FirstLines, and Books Reviewed 553