num_pages: 544
description: The essays in this collection were written as reviews, mainly for The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, on books by or about Alexander Pope, Vincent van Gogh, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, and A. E. Housman, or as introductions to editions of the classical Greek writers, the Protestant mystics, Shakespeare, Goethe, Kierkegaard, Tennyson, Grimm and Andersen, Poe, G. K. Chesterton, Paul Valéry, and others.  Throughout, these prose pieces reveal the same wit and intelligence—as well as the vision—that sparked the brilliance of Auden's poetry.
language: English
title: Forewords and Afterwords
titlecomplete: Forewords and Afterwords
genres: Criticism, Essays, Poetry, Writing, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 61
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Arts and Letters
publisher: Vintage