Young Wystan
Ian Hamilton, 8 September 1994
Juvenilia: Poems 1922-28
by W.H. Auden, edited by Katherine Bucknell.
Faber, 263 pp., £25, July 1994,0 571 17140 0 Show More
by W.H. Auden, edited by Katherine Bucknell.
Faber, 263 pp., £25, July 1994,
“... persona of his later years – the early nights, the carpet slippers, and so on. Old when young and young when old: the ageing of our most-wrinkled-ever poet has always seemed a somewhat mysterious process.Most people who knew Auden when he really was ‘the youngest person present’ were struck by his air of being ... ”