The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose, Volume V: 1963-1968

The penultimate volume of the complete prose of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century

This fifth volume of W. H. Auden's prose displays a great writer’s mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. It contains his most personally revealing essays, the ones in which he wrote for the first time about the full history of his family life, his sexuality, and the development of his moral and religious beliefs. Among these works are the lightly...