I AM GRATEFUL to the American Council of Learned Societies and the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library for a fellowship in 2011–12 that gave me the time and space to develop this project. Thanks to NYPL Berg Collection director Isaac Gewirtz and librarian Anne Garner for their assistance in helping me explore the remarkable Auden papers at the Berg.
Auden’s literary executor, Edward Mendelson, has been generous throughout the project in answering my questions and granting permission to quote unpublished material by Auden. I completed a draft of the book in 2014–15 with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, in combination with sabbatical support from Boston University. Thanks also to the Boston University Center for the Humanities for help in covering permissions fees.
Credits
“Law Like Love,” copyright © 1940 and renewed 1968 by W. H. Auden; and “A Summer Night,” copyright © 1937 by Random House, Inc., and renewed 1965 by W. H. Auden; from Collected Poems, by W. H. Auden. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC and by Curtis Brown, Ltd. All rights reserved. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Penguin Random House LLC for permission.
Excerpts from The English Auden: Poems, Essays, and Dramatic Writings, 1927–1939, copyright © 1977 renewed. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
Nathaniel Mackey, from Splay Anthem, copyright © 2002 by Nathaniel Mackey. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpt from the unpublished manuscript of The Sea and the Mirror used by permission of the Estate of W.H. Auden. All rights reserved.