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When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie--Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title persona of some books by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith - often identifies the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. That is no accident: McCall Smith has long been fascinated with Auden. Indeed, the novelist, best known for his No. 1 Females Detective Firm series, calling the poet not only the best literary finding of his life but also the best of manuals on how to live a life. In this book, McCall Smith has written a lovely personal account in what Auden did for him--and what he might just do for you.Part self-portrait, part literary gratitude, the book instructs how McCall Smith first found the poet's work in the 1970s, while educating law in Belfast, a violently divided city where Auden's "Sept 1, 1939," a poem about the outbreak of World Warfare II, strongly resonated. McCall Smith continues on to show you how his life has related to and been motivated by other Auden poems ever since. For example, he details how he has found an invaluable reflection on life's transience in "As I Strolled Out One Night," while "A LOT MORE Loving One" has provided an instructive meditation on unrequited love. McCall Smith shows how Auden can talk with us throughout life, recommending how, despite complications and change, we can observe understanding, acceptance, and love for others. An enchanting story about how exactly art work can help us live, this book will appeal to McCall Smith's followers and anyone curious about Auden.
