W.H. Auden (1907-1973). Born in Britain, later bacame a US citizen, hailed as a prophetic genius, brilliant satirist and lyricist. Writings inlcude: Poems, The Orators, Look Stranger. Volume covers the period 1930-1977.

Introduction; Chapter 1 ‘Paid on Both Sides: A Charade’; Chapter 1-1 William Empson on Defining the Attitude of a Generation ‘Experiment’ (Cambridge); Chapter 2 ‘Poems’; Chapter 2-1 Naomi Mitchison Advertises a New Generation, ‘Weekend Review’; Chapter 2-2 Dilys Powell, from a Review on New Poetry, ‘Sunday Times’; Chapter 2-3 Michael Roberts on an Approach to Integration, ‘Adelphi’; Chapter 2-4 Louis Macneice on ‘Up-To-Date’ Auden, Untitled Review, ‘Oxford Outlook’; Chapter 2-5 F.R. Leavis on Chaos and Defeat, in Poetry and Disintegration, ‘Times Literary Supplement’; Chapter 2-6 M.D. Zabel on Auden’s Certain Poetic Gifts, from a Dawn in Britain, ‘Poetry’; Chapter 2-7 Dudley Fitts, to Karthage then I Came…, ‘Hound and Horn’; Chapter 3 ‘The Orators’; Chapter 3-1 William Plomer on Auden’s ‘Vigorous Attack’, ‘Sunday Referee’; Chapter 3-2 Alan Pryce-Jones Puzzles over Meaning, from a Poetry Chronicle, ‘London Mercury’; Chapter 3-3 A.C. Brock on Medium Before Meaning, Unsigned Review, ‘Times Literary Supplement’; Chapter 3-4 F.R. Leavis, from an Unsigned Review, ‘Listener’; Chapter 3-5 Stephen Spender Explicates the Early Auden, ‘Twentieth Century’ (Promethean Society); Chapter 3-6 Geoffrey Grigson, the Poet and the Enemy, ‘Saturday Review’; Chapter 3-7 Michael Roberts, Untitled Review, ‘Adelphi’; Chapter 3-8 Bonamy Dobrée, Provisional Praise, ‘Spectator’; Chapter 3-9 John Hayward on Obscurity and Stimulus, Untitled Review, ‘Criterion’; Chapter 3-10 Graham Greene on Auden’s Virtuosity, Three Poets, ‘Oxford Magazine’; Chapter 3-11 Hugh Gordon Porteus on Value and Influence, ‘Twentieth Century’ (Promethean Society); Chapter 3-12 Henry Bamford Parkes, an Expatriate View, ‘Symposium’; Chapter 3-13 John Gould Fletcher on a Poet of Courage, ‘Poetry’ (CHICAGO); Chapter 3-14 Robert Penn Warren on the English ‘Poetical Renascence’, from Twelve Poets, ‘American Review’; Chapter 3-15 Stephen Spender on Psychology and Revolution; Chapter 4 An uncompleted ‘epic’.../part contents