Auden Askew
Barbara Everett, 19 November 1981
W.H. Auden: A Biography
by Humphrey Carpenter.
Allen and Unwin, 495 pp., £12.50, June 1981,0 04 928044 9 Show More
by Humphrey Carpenter.
Allen and Unwin, 495 pp., £12.50, June 1981,
“... it is not) an official biography, he has evidently depended on or even worked fairly closely with Edward Mendelson, perhaps Auden’s ‘scholar-in-chief’, his literary executor and the editor who worked directly according to his wishes. And yet legends afflict Mendelson’s work as well. After his edition of the Collected Poems, which retains Auden’s own ... ”