W.H. Auden

Introduction; Chapter 1 âPaid on Both Sides: A Charadeâ; Chapter 1-1 William Empson on Defining the Attitude of a Generation âExperimentâ (Cambridge); Chapter 2 âPoemsâ; Chapter 2-1 Naomi Mitchison Advertises a New Generation, âWeekend Reviewâ; Chapter 2-2 Dilys Powell, from a Review on New Poetry, âSunday Timesâ; Chapter 2-3 Michael Roberts on an Approach to Integration, âAdelphiâ; Chapter 2-4 Louis Macneice on âUp-To-Dateâ Auden, Untitled Review, âOxford Outlookâ; Chapter 2-5 F.R. Leavis on Chaos and Defeat, in Poetry and Disintegration, âTimes Literary Supplementâ; Chapter 2-6 M.D. Zabel on Audenâs Certain Poetic Gifts, from a Dawn in Britain, âPoetryâ; Chapter 2-7 Dudley Fitts, to Karthage then I Cameâ¦, âHound and Hornâ; Chapter 3 âThe Oratorsâ; Chapter 3-1 William Plomer on Audenâs âVigorous Attackâ, âSunday Refereeâ; Chapter 3-2 Alan Pryce-Jones Puzzles over Meaning, from a Poetry Chronicle, âLondon Mercuryâ; Chapter 3-3 A.C. Brock on Medium Before Meaning, Unsigned Review, âTimes Literary Supplementâ; Chapter 3-4 F.R. Leavis, from an Unsigned Review, âListenerâ; Chapter 3-5 Stephen Spender Explicates the Early Auden, âTwentieth Centuryâ (Promethean Society); Chapter 3-6 Geoffrey Grigson, the Poet and the Enemy, âSaturday Reviewâ; Chapter 3-7 Michael Roberts, Untitled Review, âAdelphiâ; Chapter 3-8 Bonamy Dobr©e, Provisional Praise, âSpectatorâ; Chapter 3-9 John Hayward on Obscurity and Stimulus, Untitled Review, âCriterionâ; Chapter 3-10 Graham Greene on Audenâs Virtuosity, Three Poets, âOxford Magazineâ; Chapter 3-11 Hugh Gordon Porteus on Value and Influence, âTwentieth Centuryâ (Promethean Society); Chapter 3-12 Henry Bamford Parkes, an Expatriate View, âSymposiumâ; Chapter 3-13 John Gould Fletcher on a Poet of Courage, âPoetryâ (CHICAGO); Chapter 3-14 Robert Penn Warren on the English âPoetical Renascenceâ, from Twelve Poets, âAmerican Reviewâ; Chapter 3-15 Stephen Spender on Psychology and Revolution; Chapter 4 An uncompleted âepicâ.../part contents