About this book
The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays written by W.H. Auden contains a collection of essays, reviews, and lectures written between 1950 and 1962. The book portrays insight of Auden's’ teachings as a professor of poetry at the University of Oxford, characterized by his aphorisms and notes. Many of these pieces were not previously published and were first released in this collection. One of the more famously recorded pieces in the book was his inaugural lecture, “Making, Knowing and Judging”. The book was dedicated to Auden’s tutor at Oxford, Nevil Coghill.
From the jacket flap
In this volume, W. H. Auden assembled, edited, and arranged the best of his prose writing, including the famous lectures he delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry. The result is less a formal collection of essays than an extended and linked series of observations--on poetry, art, and the observation of life in general. The Dyer's Hand is a surprisingly personal, intimate view of the author's mind, whose central focus is poetry--Shakespearean poetry in particular--but whose province is the author's whole experience of the twentieth century.
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Random House published the First Printing, First Edition in New York, 1962. The hardcover is characterized by teal cloth over boards, with gilt lettering to the spine. First edition dust jacket is cream-colored with red lettering. Faber and Faber published a First Edition in London, 1963-1964. Teal cloth over boards, with gilt lettering to the spine. Cream-colored dust jacket and red lettering.
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- Title The Dyer's Hand
- Author W. H. Auden
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 544
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date February 19, 1990
- ISBN 9780679724841 / 0679724842
- Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.17 x 1.02 in (20.42 x 13.13 x 2.59 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89040057
- Dewey Decimal Code 814.52
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