Wystan Hugh Auden

The Dyer's Hand and other essays is a prose book by W. H. Auden, published in 1962. The book contains a selection of essays, reviews, and collections of aphorisms and notes written by Auden from the early 1950s to 1962. Many items were not previously published, but others appear in revised forms. Many of the essays …

"I temi di queste poesie sono l'amore e la disonestà, i due poli tra i quali ci siamo trovati a soggiornare nel nostro secolo, pronti a gloriarci della loro occasionale divergenza ma bravissimi, anche quando siamo sfortunati, a conciliarli fra loro, a fonderli insieme. Ci sono buone ragioni se i versi del poeta …

On This Island is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, first published under the title Look, Stranger! in the UK in 1936, then published under Auden's preferred title, On this Island, in the US in 1937. It is also the title of one of the poems in the collection. The book contains thirty-one poems. The opening "Prologue" is …