...Christopher Armitage W. H. Auden as a Social Poet . By Buell Frederick . Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press , 1973 . Pp. vii , 196 . $8.95 . Man’s Place: An Essay on Auden . By Johnson Richard . Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press , 1973 . Pp. xvi...

... Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Auden at Kirchstetten, 1973 Friends have urged me to give an account of the conversation I had with W. H. Auden some months before his death. In doing so I realize that others, of course, can make vastly more significant contributions...

...Roy W. Battenhouse The Poet and His Faith : Religion and Poetry in England from Spenser to Eliot and Auden . By Woodhouse A. S. P. . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1965 . Pp. xii , 204 . $6.95 . Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 126 The South Atlantic...

...Helen Bevington Auden: An Introductory Essay . By Hoggart Richard . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1951 . Pp. 256 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews 461 back before the Civil War and the one on Bellamy being far more than a routine...

...Morton Seif Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 THE IMPACT OF T. S. ELIOT ON AUDEN AND SPENDER Morton Seif To Stephen Spender we assign Our minor talents to assist in the defense Of the European Tradition and to carry on The Human heritage. Auden and MacNeice, Their Last...

.... Auden . By Spears Monroe K. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1963 . Pp. 394 . $6.75 . The Religious Sonnets of Dylan Thomas . By Kleinman H. H. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1963 . Pp. 153 . $3.75 . The Confucian Odes of Ezra Pound . By Dembo L...

... . Edited by Auden W. H. . New York : Rinehart & Company , 1955 . Pp. xxvi , 482 . $0.95 . Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Prose and Poetry . Edited by Gibson William M. . New York : Rinehart & Company , 1956 . Pp. xx , 425 . $0.95 . Fifteen...

...Grover Smith, Jr. The Making of the Auden Canon . By Beach Joseph Warren . Minneapolis : The University of Minnesota Press , 1957 . Pp. x , 315 . $4.75 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 380 The South Atlantic Quarterly lawyer is held only to a reasonable...

...George Mills Harper Eminent Domain: Yeats among Wilde, Joyce, Pound, Eliot, and Auden . By Ellmann Richard . New York : Oxford University Press , 1967 . Pp. vii , 159 . $4.95 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 564 The South Atlantic Quarterly Eminent Domain...

...Monroe K. Spears Quest for the Necessary: W. H. Auden and the Dilemma of Divided Consciousness . By Greenberg Herbert . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1968 . Pp. 209 . $5.95 . Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 Book Reviews 291 ican woman, and offers...

.... Auden and the Dilemma of Di­ vided Consciousness. By Herbert Greenberg. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968. Pp. 209. $5.95. This book is one of the most attractive interpretations of Auden s poetry yet to appear. Mr. Greenberg is admirably clear about what he is doing and about its limits...

.... SIDNEY S. ALDERMAN The Making of the Auden Canon. By Joseph Warren Beach. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1957. Pp. x, 315. $4-75- Students of twentieth-century literature have long needed a coherent, plainly written book on W. H. Auden. Now that it has come, though wearing a somewhat...

..., it seems useful only to those readers who are already quite familiar with Auden s poetry. For the acquainted there is illuminat­ ing marginal comment. There is a study of Auden s technique. In his changing aspects from the period of the 1930 s to his later period, since 1940, in the United States...

... is a stimulating collection of overlapping essays. One hopes that the author will pursue his theme subsequently in a study of World War I and after. UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DANIEL M. SMITH W. H. Auden as a Social Poet. By Frederick Buell. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1973. Pp. vii, 196. $8.95. Man s...

.... Internationalism, collectivism, uncompro­ mising pacifism, scientific humanism, a change of heart which would transform hate into love these were some of the remedies proposed. No one can argue that the poets men like W. H. Auden, Stephen Vincent Benet, Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender were ideologi­ cally...

... Wilde, Joyce, Pound, Eliot, and Auden. By Richard Ellmann. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. vii, 159. $4.95. The words in a book, Professor Ellmann reminds us, are coded records of successive impositions of eminent domain. In effect, pub­ lished works become property from which writers...

... began with Yeats s special use of the word ceremony and then extended into Auden and the younger Ameri­ can poets. But Obsessive Images is certainly much more than a study of sources. It is, among other things, an analysis of the inception and opera­ tion of conventions which were profoundly...

...Fred Chappell; Arlin Turner; Lodwick Hartley; Louis Budd; William H. Gilbert; W. Robert Higgins Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Book Reviews 271 Other books of interest . . . W.H. Auden: A Tribute, edited by Stephen Spender (New York: Macmillan, 1975. 100 black-and white...

.... The first examples come from The Quest series of sonnets by W. H. Auden. The third sonnet, The Crossroads, is concerned with a railroad junction where friends are meeting and parting, each to go to his own mistake. The junction, says Auden, is like all quays and crossroads, for they are all places...

..., or alternatively, as newly-discovered and more complex types of organization. . . . But the extremely personal style that some contemporary poets like W. H. Auden and Kenneth Fearing culti­ vate by refining their singularities and forcing all tendencies to their limits is virtually a denial, grotesque and violent...