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Tables of Contents for Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
PREFACE
ix
2
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
xi
2
INTRODUCTION
xiii
24
THE TEXT OF THIS EDITION
xxxvii
 
ESSAYS AND REVIEWS, 1926-1936
3
170
Preface to Oxford Poetry 1926
3
1
Auden
Charles Plumb
Preface to Oxford Poetry 1927
3
2
Auden
C. Day-Lewis
A Review of Instinct and Intuition
5
2
George Binney Dibblee
A Review of The Grasshoppers Come
7
1
David Garnett
A Review of The Complete Poems of John Skelton
8
3
A Review of Edda and Saga
11
1
Bertha S. Phillpotts
A Review of The Prisoner's Soul--and Our Own
12
1
Eivind Berggrav
Writing
12
13
Private Pleasure
25
2
Problems of Education
27
2
A Review of The Evolution of Sex
29
2
Dr Gregorio Maranon
The Biological Tragedy of Women
29
2
Anton Nemilov
Gentleman versus Player
31
3
A Review of The Dark Places of Education
34
1
Dr Willi Schohaus
A Poet Tells Us How to Be Masters of the Machine
35
2
A Review of Culture and Environment
37
2
F. R. Leavis
Denys Thompson
Other Books
A Review of The Poems of William Dunbar
39
2
What Is Wrong With Architecture?
41
1
A Review of The Book of Talbot
42
2
Violet Clifton
The First Lord Melchett
44
3
The Group Movement and the Middle Classes
47
8
The Liberal Fascist (Honour)
55
6
"T. E. Lawrence"
61
1
Life's Old Boy
62
4
A Review of The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
66
3
Elsie Elizabeth Phare
A Review of Modern Poetic Drama
69
1
Priscilla Thouless
A Review of English Poetry for Children
70
2
R. L. Megroz
In Search of Dracula
72
5
To Unravel Unhappiness
77
3
Lowes Dickinson
80
2
John Skelton
82
11
Psychology and Art To-day
93
12
Introduction to The Poet's Tongue
105
4
Auden
John Garrett
The Good Life
109
14
Everyman's Freedom
123
2
The Bond and the Free
125
3
[From the Series "I Want the Theatre to Be..."]
128
1
A Review of Documentary Film
129
1
Paul Rotha
Psychology and Criticism
130
3
A Review of Questions of Our Day
133
1
Havelock Ellis
Selling the Group Theatre
134
1
Honest Doubt
135
2
[Robert Frost]
137
4
Pope
141
14
A Review of The Book of Margery Kempe
155
2
A Modern Use of Masks: An Apologia
157
1
Are You Dissatisfied with This Performance?
158
1
The Average Man
159
2
Four Stories of Crime
161
1
Poetry, Poets, and Taste
162
3
Adventures in the Air
165
1
A Novelist's Poems
166
1
Crime Tales and Puzzles
167
6
LETTERS FROM ICELAND
173
320
W. H. Auden
Louis MacNeice
ESSAYS AND REVIEWS, 1937-1938
383
110
Impressions of Valencia
383
1
Royal Poets
384
2
A Review of Illusion and Reality
386
2
Christopher Caudwell
(From Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War)
388
1
Preface to the Catalogue of Oil Paintings by Past and Present Members of the Downs School, Colwall
388
1
Education
389
35
Auden
T. C. Worsley
A Good Scout
424
1
In Defence of Gossip
425
5
Introduction to The Oxford Book of Light Verse
430
7
Jehovah Housman and Satan Housman
437
2
Chinese Diary
439
9
Auden
Christopher Isherwood
Meeting the Japanese
448
3
Auden
Christopher Isherwood
Escales
451
4
Auden
Christopher Isherwood
The Sportsmen: A Parable
455
3
(Message to the Chinese People)
458
1
Auden
Christopher Isherwood
Men of Thought and Action
458
2
Ironworks and University
460
3
Democracy's Reply to the Challenge of Dictators
463
4
Nonsense Poetry
467
2
Introduction to Poems of Freedom
469
2
John Mulgan
Foreword to Poet Ventures: A Collection of Poems
471
1
Bristol School Boys and Girl
"The Noble Savage"
471
2
A New Short Story Writer
473
2
The Teaching of English
475
2
Morality in an Age of Change
477
1
George Gordon Byron
487
2
China
489
4
JOURNEY TO A WAR
493
200
W. H. Auden
Christopher Isherwood
APPENDICES
693
46
I Auden as Anthologist and Editor
693
19
II Reported Lectures
712
14
III Auden on the Air
726
2
IV Public Letters Signed by Auden and Others
728
6
V Lost and Unwritten Work
734
5
TEXTUAL NOTES
739
94
Essays and Reviews, 1926-1936
739
28
Letters from Iceland
767
37
1. History, Authorship, Text, and Editions
767
6
2. The Text of the First Edition
773
8
3. Notes to "Auden and MacNeice: Their Last Will and Testament"
781
19
4. The 1967 Second Edition
800
4
Essays and Reviews, 1937-1938
804
18
Journey to a War
822
11
1. History, Authorship, Text, and Editions
822
4
2. The Text of the First Edition
826
3
3. The 1973 Second Edition
829
4
INDEX OF TITLES, FIRST LINES, AND BOOKS REVIEWED
833