The Poetry of W. H. Aud,en
The Disenchanted Island
By
Monroe K. Spears.
The only comprehensive, critical, and
historical study prepared with Auden's co-operation. "Illuminates not
Auden only, but the history of poetry in English."-ALAN PRYCE-JONES,
New York Herald Tribune.
"The ability to interpret, evaluate, and trace
boundaries dealing with the powerful talents of a contemporary still in
active career requires rare gifts of insight and organization, and these
Spears proves to have in this valuable
survey."-The N ew York er.
"The
best book by anybody about a living poet."-ALLEN TATE.
$6.75
One Nation Indivisible
The Union
in
American Thought, 1776-1861
By
Paul
C. Nagel.
From the Revolution to the Civil War "the
Union" was, in the words of Daniel Webster, "the all-absorbing topic
of the day; on it all men write, speak, think, and dilate . .." Today's
differences about national power and states' rights show the vitality of
the concept by which Americans have tried to define themselves and
their destiny. Professor Nagel's study- a permanent contribution to our
intellectual history-follows its development during the nation's crucial
formative period.
$7.00
The City
of
Satisfactions
By
Daniel Hoffman.
A brilliant new collection from a poet al–
ready widely acclaimed. "From his strong restraints burst dazzling
powers ... [these poems] establish Daniel Hoffman as one of the best
poets of his generation."-RICHARD EBERHART. "His best poems are in
delicate and precise balance between irony and total
seriousness."- N. Y.
Times Book Review.
"These poems are exquisitely made and absolutely
originaI."-RICHARD LATTIMORE. "His real virtue is his attempt to bring
joy into
verse."-Book Week
$3.00
The Gates of Horn
A
Study
01
Five French Realists
By
Harry Levin.
A critical study of France's great novelists from
Stendhal to Proust. "We have had no work quite like it since Edmund
Wilson's
Axel's Castle."-LEoN
EDEL. "The mature work of a gifted
scholar."-LEoN S. .ROUDIEZ,
Saturday Review.
"He is not the first to
annex Stendhal to one end and Proust to the other of the line of realists,
yet his
is
the most convincing demonstration to date that the enlarged
'dynasty' has a unity of vital statistics and accomplishments that out–
weighs its differences."-RoGER SHATTUCK,
Partisan R eview
$8 .50
Oxford University Press/New York
