The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays

"Perhaps [Auden] is too modest and too generous. These virtues shine again and again from these pages, and they are remarkable enough in one of the chief poets of the age, a man internationally celebrated now for thirty years, also a man known in his legend for a witty, savaging tongue, whereas here he several times refueses to exemplify a Bad Work on the ground that to do so would be 'cruel.' But probably a critic must take the moral risk and be tougher, for it is his job, among other things, to assert and to judge: to propagate the faith and only the faith...Worse still, he writes too well."W. H. Auden is the author of 'The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays' with ISBN 9780679724841 and ISBN 0679724842.