About this Book

"Again and again, the literary imagination of our time has located the scene and site of the human drama outside the realm of what Martin Buber called 'the interhuman.' But there are certain great exceptions to this general pattern, and, of these, Nathan Scott in his latest book holds up three of the most notable examples--in the work of T.S. Eliot, André Malraux, and W. H. Auden. In each of these focal figures he locates an exemplary instance in recent literature of the human world being conceived to be a world of coexistence, and he exhibits them as poets--Malraux, too, since his fiction is viewed as essentially a poetic enterprise--whose special distinction it is to prompt reflection on the nature of civic virtue"--From book jacket.