How does it work?" The second is, in the broadest sense, moral: "What kind of a guy inhabits this poem? What is his notion of the good life or the good place? His notion of the Evil One? What does he conceal from the reader? What does he conceal even from himself?" - W. The first is technical: "Here is a verbal contraption. 'Speaking for myself, the questions which interest me most when reading a poem are two. Publication date 1968 Publisher New York : Vintage Books Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks china Digitizing sponsor Internet Archive Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Turquise cloth, top edge tinted black, 528 pages, with dustjacket. Auden assembled, edited, and arranged the best of his prose writing, including the famous lectures he delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry. In 1956 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and The Dyer's Hand appeared in 1962, combining earlier material with revised versions of many of his Oxford lectures: The result is one of Auden's most original works, his only book of prose devised as a single cohesive work about disparate subjects, and containing - as he remarked at the time - 'all the autobiography I am willing to make public'. The dyers hand, and other essays by Auden, W. In the early 1950s Auden began planning a prose volume that would bring together some of his published essays, lectures, and reviews, together with newly-written notes and aphorisms.
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