Dyer's Hand

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. <b>The Dyer's Hand</b> 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.