About the Author

Edward Mendelson is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the author of Early Auden (Viking). He is the editor of two volumes of Auden's poetry, Collected Poems (Random House) and The English Auden (Random House).

Reviews

"This collection is, above all, fun to read, full as it is of memorable high jinks... There is a fertility of invention not only in incident but in writing itself ... Auden was always a virtuoso, something of a showoff--and it is a pleasure to watch him showing off."--Los Angeles Times,