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Endnotes
1. TEA 54.
2. W. H. Auden, “The First Lord Melchett,” Scrutiny 2, no. 3 (1933): 309.
3. These views are expressed in Auden's foreword to Robert Horan, A Beginning (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1948), 8.
4. See W. H. Auden, commentary to Joseph Jacobs, The Pied Piper (New York: The MacMillan Company, 1963), ii-iv, 37-40; W. H. Auden, afterword to George MacDonald, The Golden Key (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967), 81-86; W. H. Auden, “K's Quest,” in The Kafka Problem, ed. Angel Flores (New York: New Directions, 1946), 47-52; Herbert Greenberg, Quest for the Necessary (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968).
5. See W. H. Auden's pertinent study The Enchafd Flood, or The Romantic Iconography of the Sea (New York: Random House, 1950), esp. 3-37.
6. Geoffrey Grigson, “Auden as a Monster,” New Verse 26-27 (Auden Double Number, November 1937): 13.
7. See Paul Fussell, “Border Crossings,” Harper's (July 1979): 70.
8. W. H. Auden discusses the necessary “numinousness” of a poetic vision in The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays (New York: Random House, 1962), 58.
9. Monroe K. Spears, ed., Auden: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964)
10. Christopher Isherwood, “Some Notes on Auden's Early Poetry,” New Verse 26-27 (Auden Double Number November 1937): 6.
11. James Byer, “The Literary Criticism of W. H. Auden: Theory and Practice” (PhD diss., Duke University, 1971); Aaron Rosen, “The Critical Prose of W. H. Auden” (PhD diss., UCLA-Berkeley, 1962).
12. W. H. Auden, introduction to The Criterion Book of Modern American Verse (New York: Criterion Books, 1956), 19.
13. See W. H. Auden, “Speaking of Books,” New York Times, sec. 7, May 15, 1955; also, Dyer's Hand (1962), 8.
14. W. H. Auden, Making, Knowing, and Judging (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1956), 25.
15. DH 280.
16. DH 9.
17. Alan Brownjohn, “Concinnity,” New Statesman 84 (September 1972): 567.