On Wednesday, November 20, The New School Writing Program will host a forum with professor Edward Mendelson, who will read and comment on poems by W. H. Auden and then take questions. David Lehman will moderate.
Edward Mendelson -- the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia -- is the author of "Early Auden" and "Later Auden." He has edited numerous standard editions of Auden's work, including the "Selected Poems" (Vintage; enlarged edition 2007), "Collected Poems" (third ed. 2007), and the multi-volume "Complete Works." Professor Mendelson has published widely on a range of subjects, including a recent piece on Norman Mailer in the "NY Review of Books." He has also written "The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life" (2006). He has taught at Yale and Harvard and holds the Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University.
It will be a wonderful opportunity to hear from the world's foremost authority on a poet whom he has aptly characterized as "the first poet writing in English who felt at home in the twentieth century, and the first who understood its special temptations."
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