The book will interest not only Auden’s many admirers, but everyone concerned with twentieth-century literature and culture. The long “Last Will and Testament” written in verse by Auden and MacNeice, which Evelyn Waugh described as a “gossip column,” is annotated in full. The editor’s notes include explanations of contemporary and private allusions. It includes studies of Communism and Christianity audaciously wide-ranging essays on literature, psychology, and politics and writings about gossip, sex, prisons, and schools. Auden’s early prose ranges from extravagant indiscreet travel diaries through sharply observed critiques of writers from John Skelton to Winston Churchill. Auden wrote during the years when he was living in England, and also includes the full original versions of his two illustrated travel books, Letters from Iceland (written in collaboration with Louis MacNeice) and Journey to a War (written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood). This book contains all the essays and reviews that W.
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