ARGONAUT BOOKS

The bulk of this text is a long Auden poem; the poem is preceded by an introduction and followed by textual notes. Reviews "[Auden's] four long poems . . . remain the astounding heart of his work. . . . In For the Time Being, the most successful of these poems, [the characters] are at once participants in the Nativity story and drunken New Yorkers."---Adam Gopnik, New Yorker"Beautiful."---Mark Schorer, New York Times"For the Time Being is efficiently annotated and interestingly introduced."---Lachlan MacKinnon, Times Literary Supplement"The oratorio . . . carries [its th...Read More