Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / George W. Bahlke
  • [From "Freud to Paul: The Stages of Auden's Ideology"] / Randall Jarrell
  • [From The Making of the Auden Canon] / Joseph Warren Beach
  • [From This Modern Poetry] / Babette Deutsch
  • [From "In the Cool Element of Prose" (Review of The Orators, rev. ed.)] / David Lehman
  • [From A Reader's Guide to W.H. Auden (The Dog beneath the Skin)] / John Fuller
  • [From Auden: An Introductory Essay (The Ascent of F6 and On the Frontier)] / Richard Hoggart
  • [From Early Auden (Look, Stranger!)] / Edward Mendelson
  • [From Auden: A Carnival of Intellect (Sonnets from China)] / Edward Callan
  • [From Quest for the Necessary ("New Year Letter")] / Herbert Greenberg
  • The Poet in Wartime: Yeats, Eliot, Auden (From Saving Civilization: Yeats, Eliot, and Auden Between the Wars ("September 1, 1939," "In Memory of W.B. Yeats," and "At the Grave of Henry James")] / Lucy McDiarmid
  • [From Auden's Poetry ("The Sea and the Mirror")] / Justin Replogle
  • Through the Looking Glass (Review of For the Time Being] / Harry Levin
  • [From Changes of Heart (The Age of Anxiety)] / Gerald Nelson
  • [From Man's Place: An Essay on Auden ("In Praise of Limestone" and "Bucolics")] / Richard Johnson
  • [From The Later Auden ("Horae Canonicae")] / George W. Bahlke
  • [From W.H. Auden (About the House, City without Walls, Epistle to a Godson, and Thank you, Fog)] / Stan Smith
  • [From The Poetry of W.H. Auden: The Disenchanted Island (The Rake's Progress)] / Monroe K. Spears
  • Auden as a Literary Critic / Cleanth Brooks
  • [From W.H. Auden] / George T. Wright
  • [From Lions and Shadows] / Christopher Isherwood
  • [From Themes and Conclusions] / Igor Stravinsky
  • [From Journals 1939-1983] / Stephen Spender.