What W. H. Auden Can Do for You / / Alexander McCall Smith.

When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie--Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith--often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no accident: McCall Smith has long been fascinated b...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2014
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Writers on Writers ; 5
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Author's Note
  • 1. Love Illuminates Again
  • 2. Who Was He?
  • 3. A Discovery of Auden
  • 4. Choice and Quest
  • 5. The Poet as Voyager
  • 6. Politics and Sex
  • 7. If I Could Tell You I Would Let You Know
  • 8. What Freud Meant
  • 9. A Vision of Agape
  • 10. That We May Have Dreams and Visions
  • 11. And Then There Is Nature
  • 12. Auden as a Guide to the Living of One's Life