The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose Volume IV: 1956-1962

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A definitive volume of Audens prose that includes his important work The Dyers Hand This fourth volume of W. H. Audens prose provides a unique picture of this legendary writers mind and art when he was at the height of his powers from 1956 through 1962 including the years when he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford. The volume includes his best-known and most important prose collection The Dyers Hand as well as scores of essays reviews and lectures on subjects ranging from J. R. R. Tolkien and Martin Luther to psychedelic drugs cooking and Homer. Much of the material has never been collected in book form and some selections such as the witty orations Auden wrote for ceremonies at Oxford University are almost entirely unknown. Edward Mendelsons introduction and comprehensive notes provide biographical and historical explanations of all obscure references. The text includes extensive corrections and revisions that Auden marked in personal copies of his work and which are printed here for the first time.