Auden

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
Prologue: \'What goal but the black stone?\'......Page 13
1 \'A typical little highbrow and difficult child\'......Page 18
2 \'I knew that very moment what I wished to do\'......Page 46
3 \'I mean to be a great poet\'......Page 63
Illustrations......Page 103
4 \'I\'m king of Berlin\'......Page 99
5 \'To love; to be loved; to be a teacher; to be a pupil\'......Page 135
6 \'The cold controlled ferocity of the human species\'......Page 166
7 \'Mr Right has come into my life\'......Page 202
Illustrations......Page 219
8 \'Disgraces to keep hidden from the world\'......Page 256
9 \'I was glad I could be unhappy\'......Page 293
Illustrations......Page 335
10 \'And I, submissive, felt unwanted and went out\'......Page 343
Epilogue: \'God may reduce you on Judgment Day \'......Page 378
Acknowledgments......Page 383
Abbreviations used in source notes......Page 385
Sources......Page 389
Index......Page 429