The Dyers Hand and Other Essays

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Raudom House ⁺ New York

THE DYER'S HAND AND OTHER ESSAYS

By W. H. Auden PP-

poems another time the double man on this island journey to a war

(with Christopher Isherwood)

ascent of f-6

(with Christopher Isherwood)

on the frontier (with Christopher Isherwood)

letters from iceland

(with Louis MacNeicel

for the time being the selected poetry of w. h. auden

(Modern Library)

the age of anxiety

nones the enchafisd flood the magic flute

(with Chester Kallman)

the shield of achilles homage to clio the dyer's hand

W. H. AUDEN

THE DYER'S HAND

Random House * New York

and other essays

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by W. H. Auden

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Designed by Ruth Smerechniak

"The American Scene" reprinted with the permission of Charles Scribner's Sons from a reissue of The American Scene by Henry James. Copyright 1946 by Charles Scribner's Sons.

"Red Ribbon on a White Horse" reprinted with the permission of Charles Scribner's Sons from a reissue of Red Ribbon on a White Horse by Anzia Yezierska. Copyright 1950 by Anzia Yezierska.

The article on page 209 appeared originally in The New Yorker.

The author wishes to thank the following for •permission to reprint material included in these essays:

Harcourt, Brace & World—and Jonathan Cape Ltd. for selection from "Chard Whitlow" from A Map of Verona and Other Poems by Henry Reed.

Harvard University Press—and Basil Blackwell & Mott Ltd. for selection from The Discovery of the Mind by Bruno Snell.

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.—for selections from Complete Poems of Robert Frost. Copyright 1916, 1921, 1923, 1928, 1930, 1939, 1947, 1949, by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.—for selections from The Borzoi Book of French Folk Tales, edited by Paul Delarue.