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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In a modern scientific age many intel- lectuals assume that one cannot be a religious and a thinking person at the same time. W. H. Auden’s life and art stand as an eloquent example of the joining of the two a modern instance of how thought and faith can nourish each other. The poet’s faith expanded the horizons of his mind as well as his heart and his formidable intelligence in turn probed the nature and limits of his Christian belief animating his con- tinuous quest not only to believe still but also to believe again a process that he saw as essential to faith. Moving gracefully between biographi- cal essay and readings of Auden’s poems Arthur Kirsch a leading Auden scholar offers the first book-length study of the profound relationship between Auden’s faith and art. He con- siders how Auden’s religious faith helped him to come to terms with him- self as an artist and a man including his homosexuality and shows in detail how his faith informs