Volume 20, Number 17 · November 1, 1973

An Odd Ball in an Odd Country at an Odd Time

By W.H. Auden
St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry
by Gerald Brenan, with a translation of the poetry by Lynda Nicholson

Cambridge University Press, 233 pp., $11.95

Nobody has done more to arouse an interest in Spanish literature among English-speaking readers than Mr. Brenan. His scholarship is impeccable and his prose style felicitous.



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