The Temple
A novel by one of twentieth-century Britain's great poets and men of letter, The Temple is the story of a young Oxford poet's sojourns in Weimar Germany during the summer of 1929 and again in the fall of 1932. W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood are the barely disguised companions of the protagonist. Unpublished in 1930s due to the sensitivity of the contents and fear of libel actions, The Temple was rediscovered by its author in 1985 and rewritten. This final version, with its ardent youthfulness and the immediacy of its view of the last days of Weimar Germany on the eve of Hitler's rise to power, is novel of historical and literary importance as well as the moving story of a young man's awakening"--Page 4 of cover