Nicholas Jenkins
of Stanford University
formerly maintained on his website at http://www.stanford.edu/~njenkins/ a section called W. H. Auden. Family Ghosts, designed to show how Auden's family, despite his claims to ordinariness, sprang from a...
Literary responses
Seamus Heaney
Nicholas Jenkins
reviewed this dazzling book for the TLS as an intricately doubled entity, a thing that strives to be both buoyant and sombre, cryptic and forthright, carnal and spiritual—a doubleness he found typical of...
