Volume 38, Number 1 & 2 · January 17, 1991
Uncle Whiz
By Robert Craft
The Table Talk of W.H. Auden
by Alan Ansen, edited by Nicholas Jenkins, Introduction by Richard Howard
Ontario Review Press, 119 pp., $15.95
Memoirs of a Bastard Angel
by Harold Norse
William Morrow, 447 pp., $22.95
W.H. Auden: 'The Map of All My Youth,' Early Works, Friends and Influences Auden Studies, Volume I
edited by Katherine Bucknell, edited by Nicholas Jenkins
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 245 pp., $55.00
Auden's Apologies For Poetry
by Lucy McDiarmid
Princeton University Press, 176 pp., $24.95
Wystan Auden's obiter dicta, as heard and transcribed by Alan Ansen, are funny, brilliant, outrageous. Anyone who knew the poet—in this reviewer's case very slightly compared to Ansen—must agree that the voice rings as true as the often preposterous pronouncements, whose authenticity is verified not only by the exclusion principle that no one else could have made them up but also by the word-of-mouth survival of some of them in Auden lore.
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