Lectures on Shakespeare

Painstakingly reconstructed by Arthur Kirsch from the notes of students who attended, primarily Alan Ansen, who became Auden´s secretary and friend, the lecturer afford a remarkable insights into Shakespeare´s plays as well as the sonnets. " Auden´s lectures on Shakespeare are a marvelous blend of steady, patient intellinge and stunning insight -spirited, free-thinking, resourceful, unintimidated, liberated from the air of treacly piety, and very, very intelligent ". Stephen Greenblatt