Select Guide Rating From the Inside Flap "Fascinating and hair-raising."--Leonard Bernstein"[One of] Auden's outstanding American works."--Stephen Spender From the Back Cover "Fascinating and hair-raising."--Leonard Bernstein"[One of] Auden's outstanding American works."--Stephen Spender About the Author Alan Jacobs is the Clyde S. Kilby Professor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois. His books include "Original Sin: A Cultural History", "The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis", and "What Became of Wystan: Change and Continuity in Auden's Poetry". Read more.