Book Reviews - Review 2

Thekla Clark is an American who befriended Auden and his partner Chester Kallman when the pair were resident in Italy.

The style of this brief memoir is undistinguished, but anyone interested in Auden will find it worth reading. Clark's account of Auden's and Kallman's life together is affectionate, honest and touching, and gives a sense of Auden's personality that is more vivid than Davenport-Hines's biography (q.v.), for all its academic virtues, can aspire to providing.