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Indlæser... The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays (1962)af W. H. Auden
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. It would seem churlish to give this 4 stars, even though the essays rather trail off toward the end. A masterpiece of thought from one of the century's greatest writers, but whose cultural context and intellect are slowly - I believe - damning him to that particular obscurity known as the literary giant: much applauded, little read. What will people know of Auden by the time I am an old man? I often wonder. ( ) Wystan Hugh Auden, född 21 februari 1907 i York, England, Storbritannien, död 29 september 1973 i Wien, Österrike, var en brittisk poet. Auden studerade vid Gresham's School i Norfolk 1920-1925 och vid Christ Church, Oxford, 1925-1928. 1935 ingick han ett skenäktenskap med Erika Mann, för att hon skulle få brittiskt medborgarskap.[1] Efter att ha deltagit i spanska inbördeskriget kom han till USA 1939 och blev amerikansk medborgare 1946. A beloved book. Certain of these essays I have read many times and have no doubt I will read many more. "The Guilty Vicarage" (detective fiction), "The I Without a Self" (Kafka), "The Joker in the Pack" ("Othello", actually, Iago), "Music In Shakespeare" (self evident). However, however... Auden always fancied himself an epigrammatist, and he did, on occasion, come up with some good ones. Several sections of this book are merely collections of what I'm sure he thought were some choice specimens -- the chapters called "Reading", "Writing", "Hic et Ille." He rarely, to my mind, achieved the kind of provocative, double-edged quality of the best practitioners of this particular art, though. Many of his quips (they are really not much more than that) are just plain wrong and not a few are simply silly. I refuse to dwell on this, though, and will return once again to read Auden's forever fresh observations of the theme of master & servant in "Balaam and His Ass." ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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