Edward Mendelson
Edward Mendelson is the literary executor of the Estate of W.H. Auden and professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of Early Auden, Later Auden, and many essays on (and editions of) nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, including George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and Thomas Pynchon.
From the Review
June 12, 2008: New York Everyman
Alfred Kazin: A Biography by Richard M. Cook
December 6, 2007: Auden and God
Auden and Christianity by Arthur Kirsch
October 7, 2004: Auden's Wit (letter)
August 12, 2004: Light and Outrageous
W. H. Auden's Book of Light Verse
March 8, 1979: Spender & Auden (letter)
From New York Review Books
 | W.H. Auden's Book of Light Verse Auden's great, transformative anthology, assembled when his own work was at its most provocative and searching, is above all a rethinking of the history of poetry in English. |