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From one of the great modern writers, the acclaimed lectures in which he draws on a lifetime of experience to take the measure of Shakespeare's plays ...
1927–1939
The first of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden’s poems—including some that have never been published before W...
Plays and Other Dramatic Writings, 1928-1938
This volume contains Auden and Christopher Isherwood's dramatic extravaganzas The Dog Beneath the Skin, the Ascent of F 6, and On the Frontier. It als...
Fifteen Poems
Fifteen famous love poems and cabaret songs written in the 1930s by W. H. Auden, including 'Funeral Blues' as featured in the film Four Weddings and a...
A Christmas Oratorio
The first critical edition of Auden's only explicitly religious long poem For the Time Being is a pivotal book in the career of one of the greatest po...
W. H. Auden wrote some of the greatest love poetry of the twentieth century. This book contains ten of his poems about love. They range in mood from t...
1940–1973
The second of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden’s poems—including some that have never been published before ...
Poems, 1922-1928
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A Commentary on Shakespeare's The Tempest
Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, "The Sea and the Mirror" is not merely a great poem but ranks as one of th...
Bonded Leather binding...
Contains poems about people, places and the intellectual climate of the times. This volume by Auden was published after his departure to America with ...
Or Where Is Francis?
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Edited by Edward Mendelson
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Au...
W.H. Auden is unquestionably one of the most fascinating and influential literary figures of the twentieth century. His formal innovations in poetry a...
Auden's celebrated anthology of light verse is packed with surprising finds while also offering a striking rethinking of the poetic canon. Commissione...
Auden's electrifying, enigmatic and extraordinarily influential debut collection was published by Faber in 1930, and simply entitled Poems. For the se...
An English Study
When Auden and MacNeice travelled in Iceland together in 1936, the verse, prose, letters and notes they recorded would appear the following year as 'L...
Oscar Wilde wrote I don't defend my conduct, I explain it, when he was imprisoned in Reading Gaol in 1895 for his violation of England's stringent law...
Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks, and Other Light Verse
W. H. Auden once defined light verse as the kind that is written by poets who are democratically in tune with their audience and whose language is str...
A Baroque Eclogue
Originally published: New York: Random House, 1947....
Notes
In this volume, W. H. Auden assembled, edited, and arranged the best of his prose writing, including the famous lectures he delivered as Oxford Profes...
"The first critical edition of W. H. Auden's poetry collection The Shield of Achilles, which won the 1956 National Book Award in Poetry, this book wil...
Marlowe to Marvell
Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks and Other Light Verse
Who is a major, who is a minor poet? Inevitably, in his introduction, W. H. Auden offers a stimulating rationale for distinguishing between the two. T...
A Self Portrait: Letters Revealing His Life As a Painter
It is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden’s splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism...
An Anthology