For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio

"The oratorio carries its theme through a series of resourceful modulations to a music-hall finale, setting the Flight into Egypt—'the Land of Unlikeness'—against a real-estate development of the Waste Land. Profoundly grasped and impressively orchestrated,"—The New Republic. Auden's only explicitly Christian long poem. 136 pages, hardcover. Princeton University.