Though everything included in this volume can be found in the Collected Prose of Auden, also edited by Edward Mendelson, the price of this earlier selected collection is much more reasonable, as well as including most of the very best of Auden's critical reviews.
Auden was a genius, "the most intelligent man I ever met" was the verdict of Golo Mann, Thomas's son, and Robert Craft was almost equally impressed by the unpressed poet's amazing intellect, even though he was clearly destroying it with a combination of Lucky Strikes, barbiturates, and innumerable vodka martinis.
Auden's estimates are almost always reliable in the sense that he never praises a book too little or too much. He does come a cropper occasionally, arguing for example that Robert Gutman's book on Wagner is a welcome addition to the literature on that infamous genius, when in fact Gutman is dead wrong about MEISTERSINGER as an anti-Semitic screed and dubious on other matters.
Buy this book if you're not familiar with Auden's approach to lit crit and reviewing. If you like it as much as I do, you'll probably want to acquire the Collected Prose, though be prepared to fork out two hundred dollars to do so.
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