I got a used copy for $30 at a bookstore when I was in college. This commplace book is great - it made my write more in my journals from then on. ( )

More revealing than I'd expected. Evidence of numerous preoccupations that never obviously appeared in his poems: it might be that the world got a first rate poet instead of a geologist of moderate aptitude. ( )

From Michael Alexander to Andrew Young W.H. Auden includes such well-known authors as William Blake, Anton Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, and Henry David Thoreau. In addition to excerpts, poetry, plays, and essays Auden includes riddles, puns, epithets, and jokes. A wide range of subjects like sex, birds, God, machines, time, commas, and Eskimos are mingled with emotions like rage, love, dejection and hope. An eclectic and entertaining mix of topics are compiled. The sole regret is that very few include commentary on their importance to the author. ( )