The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

by Alan Jacobs

Auden’s “Horae Canonicae”—seven linked poems, each named after one of the monastic hours—appear in both his Collected Poems (New York: Modern Library, 2007) and Selected Poems (New York: Vintage, 2007). He worked on these poems between 1949 and 1954, and they constitute, I think, his finest achievement as a poet.

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In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh’s Didascalicon (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). I cannot recommend it too highly.

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