Product Description: For many W. H. Auden is the indispensable modern poet, and in this centenary year of his birth, the influential Auden scholar Nicholas Jenkins asks--How did Auden begin? Jenkins's young Auden is a war-shadowed poet of No Man's Land-like moors and crumbling houses where in the 1920s a struggle for survival rages through the English psyche...read more

Product Description:  Lincoln Kirstein'swriting is a notable example of a wide historical awareness that was fired by passion and guided by taste. He established his interests in art and literature as an undergraduate at Harvard during the late 1920s...read more

Product Description: Wind Energy Technology is a detailed study of our understanding of the wind and its conversion into useful energy. The book goes beyond this to examine the planning of an entire wind project. In keeping with the aims of the series, it considers economic and environmental issues and how a wind farm connects into the electricity network...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In New York, between 1946 and 1948, the scholar and poet Alan Ansen made rapid notes of Auden's inimitable conversation. This book is a record of Auden's private, offhand and sometimes wayward remarks and opinions about art, literature, music, politics, religion and sexuality.