Christopher Isherwood

Isherwood, Christopher - ishˈərwood, 1904–86, British-American author. After the appearance of his first novel, All the Conspirators (1928), Isherwood went to Germany. The four years he spent there furnished him with the material for what are probably his best novels, The Last of Mr. Norris (1935) and Goodby to Berlin (1939; reissued as The Berlin Stories, 1946); these books Read More...

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1 .

All the Conspirators: A Novel
by Christopher Isherwood. 258 pgs.

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Foreword

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Chapter XI

Chapter XII

Chapter XIII

Chapter XIV

Chapter XV

Chapter XVI

Chapter XVII

Chapter XVIII

Chapter XIX
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W. H. Auden: The Critical Heritage
by John Haffenden. 536 pgs.

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This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

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General Editor's Preface

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on the Selection and Text

Introduction

Abbreviations

'Paid on Both Sides: a Charade': 'Paid on Both Sides: a Charade'

1: William Empson on Defining the Attitude of a Generation 'Experiment' (cambridge)

'Poems': 'Poems'

2: Naomi Mitchison Advertises a New Generation, 'Weekend Review'

3: Dilys Powell, from a Review on New Poetry, 'sunday Times'

4: Michael Roberts on an Approach to Integration, 'Adelphi'

5: Louis Macneice on 'Up-To-Date' Auden, Untitled Review, 'Oxford Outlook'

6: F. R. Leavis on Chaos and Defeat, in Poetry and Disintegration, 'times Literary Supplement'

7: M. D. Zabel on Auden's Certain Poetic Gifts, from a Dawn in Britain, 'Poetry'

8: Dudley Fitts, to Karthage Then I Came…, 'Hound and Horn'

'the Orators': 'the Orators'

9: William Plomer on Auden's 'Vigorous Attack', 'sunday Referee'

10: Alan Pryce-Jones Puzzles Over Meaning, from a Poetry Chronicle, 'London Mercury'

11: A. C. Brock on Medium Before Meaning, Unsigned Review, 'times Literary Supplement'

12: F. R. Leavis, from an Unsigned Review, 'Listener'

13: Stephen Spender Explicates the Early Auden, 'twentieth Century' (promethean Society)

14: Geoffrey Grigson, the Poet and the Enemy, 'saturday Review'

15: Michael Roberts, Untitled Review, 'Adelphi'

16: Bonamy DobrÉe, Provisional Praise, 'spectator'

17: John Hayward on Obscurity and Stimulus, Untitled Review, 'Criterion'

18: Graham Greene on Auden's Virtuosity, Three Poets, 'Oxford Magazine'

19: Hugh Gordon Porteus on Value and Influence, 'twentieth Century' (promethean Society)

20: Henry Bamford Parkes, an Expatriate View, 'symposium'

21: John Gould Fletcher on a Poet of Courage, 'Poetry' (chicago)

22: Robert Penn Warren on the English 'Poetical Renascence', from Twelve Poets, 'American Review'

23: Stephen Spender on Psychology and Revolution

An Uncompleted 'Epic': An Uncompleted 'Epic'

24: Harold Nicolson on Auden's Derision and Integrity

'the Witnesses': 'the Witnesses'

25: T. S. Eliot on Auden, from a Report on Poems Published in the 'Listener', 1931-3

26: F. R. Leavis Replies to William Empson, from Auden, Bottrall, and Others, 'scrutiny'

'Poems', Second Edition: 'Poems', Second Edition

27: John Pudney, from Poetry and Satire, 'Week-End Review'

28: D. G. Bridson Awaiting the Fulfilment of Promise, 'New English Weekly'

29: C. Day-Lewis on the Dangers of Dilettantism

30: A. Desmond Hawkins on Auden's Dramatic Dynamite, 'New English Weekly'

B. the Productions

31: Michael Sayers, Theatre at Last!, 'New English Weekly'

32: A. L. Morton on the Death of a Class, 'Daily Worker'

33: Harold Hobson Applauds a Pioneer, 'Christian Science Monitor'

34: Ashley Dukes Predicts a Poet's Theatre, 'theatre Arts Monthly'

35: James Burnham on Change and Reorientation, 'Nation'

'Poems', American Edition: 'Poems', American Edition

36: Ruth Lechlitner, New Poets Heard in England, 'New York Herald Tribune'

37: Malcolm Cowley on Embattled Parables, from Spender and Auden, 'New Republic'

38: I. M. Parsons on 'A Half-Baked Little Satire', 'spectator'

39: A. L. Morton, Shocked Satirists, 'Daily Worker'

40: Montagu Slater, Two Reviews in 'Left Review'

41: Louise Bogan on the Conviction and Charity of a Good Play, 'New Republic'

42: John Lehmann on a Career in Progress, 'International Literature'

43: Derek Verschoyle on an Unconstructive Talent, 'spectator'

44: Cyril Connolly, Reluctantly Deploring Popularization, 'New Statesman and Nation'

45: E. M. Forster on Focusing 'the Ascent of F6', Chormopuloda, 'Listener'

46: Stephen Spender on Disappointing Simplifications, from Fable and Reportage, 'Left Review'

47: Ben Belitt on 'Farce for the Salon', from Rugby and the Tragic Muse, 'Nation'

48: Wyndham Lewis on 'Marxian Playboys', from 'Blasting and Bombardiering'

49: Stephen Spender, the Poetic Dramas of W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, 'New Writing'

50: A. R. Humphreys on Vitality and Confusion, 'Cambridge Review'

51: G. W. Stonier on a Successful Revival, 'New Statesman and Nation'

'Look, Stranger!': 'Look, Stranger!'

52: Dilys Powell on the Poems and the Play

53: Gavin Ewart on the Unaccommodating Play and the Powerful Poems, Untitled Reviews, 'University Forward'

54: F. R. Leavis on Irresponsible Immaturity, Mr. Auden's Talent, 'scrutiny'

55: C. Day-Lewis on a Classic or a Curiosity, Paging Mankind, 'Poetry'

56: Janet Adam Smith on Complex Accuracy, 'Criterion'

57: Edmund Wilson Regrets the Retrograde, the Oxford Boys Becalmed, 'New Republic'

58: C. Day-Lewis, Unsigned Review, 'Listener'

'spain': 'spain'

59: Richard Goodman Foresees True Revolutionary Poetry, from Perspectives for Poetry, 'Daily Worker'

60: Cyril Connolly, from To-Day the Struggle, 'New Statesman and Nation'

61: Edward Sackville-West on Being Mainly Amused, 'New Statesman and Nation'

'Letters from Iceland': Letters from Iceland

62: Unsigned Review, Cooling Waters, 'times Literary Supplement'

63: Michael Roberts on Useful Entertainment, Poets on Holiday, 'London Mercury'

64: Edwin Muir, Untitled Review, 'Criterion'

From Auden Double Number: From Auden Double Number

65: Christopher Isherwood, Some Notes on Auden's Early Poetry

66: Stephen Spender, Oxford to Communism

67: Louis Macneice, Letter to W. H. Auden

68: Geoffrey Grigson, Auden as a Monster

69: Kenneth Allott, Auden in the Theatre

70: Edgell Rickword, Auden and Politics

71: Twelve Comments on Auden

'On the Frontier': 'On the Frontier'

72: Unsigned Review, a Poetic Drama of To-Day, 'times Literary Supplement'

73: Kingsley Martin on Honest, Outspoken Topicality, 'New Statesman and Nation'

74: C. Day-Lewis on Unsuccessful Sincerity, Unsigned Review, 'Listener'

75: Julian Symons Reviews the Dramatic Canon, 'Life and Letters Today'

76: Evelyn Waugh on a Pantomime Appearance, Mr. Isherwood and Friend, 'spectator'

'Journey to a War': 'Journey to a War'

77: Randall Swingler on Being Uninvolved, Two Intellectuals in China, 'Daily Worker'

78: William Plomer, Untitled Review, 'London Mercury'

79: Geoffrey Grigson on Humane and Powerful Poetry, Twenty-Seven Sonnets, 'New Verse'

80: Lincoln Kirstein on the Greatest Poetry of Our Speech, Poets Under Fire, 'Nation'

81: Michael Roberts on a Failure to Affirm, Not This Time?, 'spectator'

'Another Time': 'Another Time'

82: T. C. Worsley on Understanding the Life of Our Day, Major Poet, 'New Statesman and Nation'

83: William Empson on Simplifying the Machinery, Untitled Review, 'Life and Letters Today'

84: Malcolm Cowley on the Idea of Guilt, Auden in America, 'New Republic'

'the Double Man': 'the Double Man'

85: Randall Jarrell on a Limited Success, 'Nation'

86: Babette Deutsch on Auden's Analytic Ethics, 'sirs, What Must I Do to Be Saved?', 'Poetry'

87: Herbert Read on Misuse of Form, Hudibrasticks, 'spectator'

88: Charles Williams on Life and Mr. Auden, Untitled Review, 'Dublin Review'

89: Raymond Winkler, Mr Auden's Weltanschauung, 'scrutiny'

'For the Time Being': 'For the Time Being'

90: Mark Schorer on Auden's Beautiful Flights, 'New York Times'

91: Harry Levin, Through the Looking Glass, 'New Republic'

92: Desmond Maccarthy, Beauty and Bugbear, 'sunday Times'

93: Hugh Kingsmill on Auden's Self-Consciousness, Occluded Pastures, 'New English Review'

94: Stephen Spender on Argument or Experience, Auden, 'time and Tide'

95: R. G. Lienhardt, Auden's Inverted Development, 'scrutiny'

The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden': The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden'

96: F. Cudworth Flint Reviews 'An Agile Intelligence', 'New York Times'

97: Louise Bogan, Untitled Review, 'New Yorker'

98: John Van Druten, He Bridged the Atlantic, 'Kenyon Review'

99: M. L. Rosenthal, Speaking Greatly in an Age of Confusion, 'New York Herald Tribune'

'the Age of Anxiety': 'the Age of Anxiety'

100: Jacques Barzun on a Philosophical Poem, 'Harper's Magazine'

101: Delmore Schwartz on Auden's 'Most Self-Indulgent Book', 'Partisan Review'

102: Giles Romilly, the Age of Despair, 'New Statesman and Nation'

103: Patric Dickinson, Untitled Review, 'Horizon'

'Collected Shorter Poems, 1930-1944': 'Collected Shorter Poems, 1930-1944'

104: George D. Painter, Letters from Wasteland, 'Listener'

'Nones': 'Nones'

105: G. S. Fraser, the Cheerful Eschatologist, 'New Statesman and Nation'

106: Robin Mayhead, the Latest Auden, 'scrutiny'

107: Unsigned Review, Diverse Occasions, 'times Literary Supplement'

108: Karl Shapiro, W. H. Auden Versus…, 'New York Times'

'the Shield of Achilles': 'the Shield of Achilles'

109: Horace Gregory, Auden's New Poems Invoke Echoes of Don Giovanni, 'New York Herald Tribune'

110: Randall Jarrell on Mitigated Triumphs, 'Yale Review'

111: Donald Davie on Auden's Playfulness, from an Untitled Review, 'shenandoah'

112: Anthony Hartley on Auden's Total Cosmos, 'spectator'

113: Edmund Wilson, W. H. Auden in America, 'New Statesman and Nation'

'Homage to Clio': 'Homage to Clio'

114: Donald Hall, Dry Farming, 'New Statesman'

115: Philip Larkin, What's Become of Wystan?, 'spectator'

116: Graham Hough on Talented Glibness, from an Untitled Review, 'Listener'

117: Thom Gunn on Auden's Tired Mannerisms, from Manner and Mannerism, 'Yale Review'

'About the House': 'About the House'

118: John Updike on Auden's Humanistic Relaxation, Untitled Review, 'Motive'

119: C. B. Cox, at Home with Auden, 'spectator'

120: Christopher Ricks, Winking, 'New Statesman'

121: Unsigned Review, Well Bred, 'times Literary Supplement'

122: John Carey on a Savour of Dereliction, 'New Statesman'

'Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957': 'Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957'

123: John Whitehead, Vin Audenaire, 'Essays in Criticism'

'Collected Longer Poems': 'Collected Longer Poems'

124: Richard Mayne, Choric Oracular Uncle, 'New Statesman'

125: Jeremy Robson, Auden's Longer Poems, 'Encounter'

'City Without Walls': 'City Without Walls'

126: John Bayley, Halcyon Structures, 'Listener'

127: John Fletcher on Classical Simplicity and Directness, 'spectator'

128: Monroe K. Spears, a Sabine Farm Near Kirchstetten, 'Yale Review'

129: Frank Kermode, Faithing and Blithing, 'Listener'

'Epistle to a Godson': 'Epistle to a Godson'

130: Clive James, Unsigned Review, a Testament to Self-Control, 'times Literary Supplement'

131: Denis Donoghue, Good Grief, 'New York Review of Books'

'thank You, Fog': 'thank You, Fog'

132: Philip Toynbee, Goodbye to Auden, 'Observer'

133: John Fuller, Footnotes, 'New Review'

134: Seamus Heaney, Shorts for Auden, 'Hibernia'

'Collected Poems': 'Collected Poems'

135: Irvin Ehrenpreis, Inside Auden's Landscape, 'New York Review of Books'

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3 .

On the Frontier: A Melodrama in Three Acts
by Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden. 128 pgs.

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Characters

Notes on the Characters

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Act One

Scene I

Scene II

Act Two

Scene I

Scene II

Act Three

Scene I

Scene II

Scene III
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The Dog beneath the Skin, or, Where Is Francis?
by Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden, . 161 pgs.

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Dramatis Personae

Scene I

Act One

Scene II

Scene III

Scene IV

Scene V

Act Two

Scene I

Scene II

Scene III

Scene IV

Scene V

Act Three

Scene I

Scene II

Scene III

Scene IV

Scene V

Epilogue
5 .

Christophananda Writes His Religion: Isherwood's Purgatory, in Critical Survey
by Stephen Wade. 16 pgs.

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Isherwood's Namesake Narrators: Device, Persona, and Alter Ego, in Critique
by Lisa N. Schwerdt. 13 pgs.

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Lectures on Some Modern Poets ("Poetic Drama in General and Auden and Isherwood in Particular" begins on p. 43)
by Beekman W. Cottrell, Dorothy W. Goodfellow, Margaret Foster Leclair, A. Fred Sochatoff, Erwin R. Steinberg. 92 pgs.

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Foreword

Hart Crane Poet of the Machine Age

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poetic Drama in General And Auden and Isher Wood In Particular

The Use of Verse in the Drama Of T. S. Eliot

Dylan Thomas "The Boy of Summer"
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The Writer Observed ("Christopher Isherwood" begins on p. 215)
by Harvey Breit. 290 pgs.

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Introduction

T. S. Eliot

Robert E. Sherwood

Evelyn Waugh

J. P. Marquand

E. M. Forster

Arnold Toynbee

Albert Schweitzer

Christopher Morley

Angela Thirkell

Robert Hillyer

John O'Hara

Nelson Algren

Alan Paton

Robert Frost

William Carlos Williams

Henry Green

Elizabeth Bowen

Christine Weston

Charles Jackson

Robert Nathan

Dylan Thomas

Aldous Huxley

Robert Penn Warren

Wilbur Daniel Steele

Budd Schulberg

John Dos Passos

W. Somerset Maugham And Evelyn Waugh

Frances Parkinson Keyes

Conrad Aiken

E. E. Cummings

James Norman Hall

Joyce Cary

Noel Coward

Cecil Woodham-Smith

James Jones

Arthur Koestler

Helen Macinnes And Gilbert Highet

J. B. Priestley

Frank Yerby

Norman Mailer

Malcolm Cowley

Ray Bradbury

Phyllis Mcginley

Christopher Isherwood

Van Wyck Brooks

Jean Stafford

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Dylan Thomas

Truman Capote

C. S. Forester

Ralph Ellison

George Jean Nathan

Carl Sandburg

James Thurber

Frank O'Connor

Ernest Hemingway

Edmund Wilson

Saul Bellow

Ernest Hemingway

William Faulkner

Index of Authors Interviewed

About the Author
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Men and Women Writers of the 1930s: The Dangerous Flood of History ("Devouring Mothers and Revengeful Spinsters: Women in the Plays of Auden, Isherwood and Spender" begins on p. 84)
by Janet Montefiore. 263 pgs.

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Men and Women Writers of the 1930s is a searching critique of the issues of memory and gender during this dynamic decade. Montefiore asks two principle questions; what part does memory play in the political literature of and about 1930s Britain? And what were the roles of women, both as writers and as signifying objects in constructing that literature? Writers include: * George Orwell * W.H. Auden * Jean Rhys * Virginia Woolf * Storm Jameson * Rebecca West

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Remembering the 1930s

Chapter 2: The Pram in the Hall

Chapter 3: Vamps and Victims

Chapter 4: 'Undeservedly Forgotten'

Chapter 5: Parables of the Past

Chapter 6: Collective and Individual Memory

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