For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio (Hardcover)
For the Time Being is a pivotal book in the career of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. W. H. Auden had recently moved to America,fallen in love with a young man to whom he considered himself married,rethought his entire poetic and intellectual equipment,and reclaimed the Christian faith of his childhood. Then,in short order,his relationship fell apart and his mother,to whom he was very close,died. In the midst of this period of personal crisis and intellectual remaking,h