The Dyer's Hand

The Dyer's Hand

"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 through 1962. Many items were not previously published; others appeared in revised from. Many of the essays are revised versions of Auden's lectures as Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, 1956-61, and includes Auden's inaugural lecture, "Making, Knowing and Judging".

The book is dedicated to Auden's tutor at Oxford, Nevill Coghill.

References

*Edward Mendelson, "Later Auden" (1999)

External links

* [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._H._Auden#The_Dyer.27s_Hand_.281962.29 Excerpts on Wikiquote]
* [http://audensociety.org The W. H. Auden Society]


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