W. H. Auden Selected Poems

Name: W. H. Auden Selected Poems
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ISBN: 9780679724834

ISBN-10: 0679724834

ISBN-13: 9780679724834

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Authors: Edward Mendelson, W. H. Auden

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This edition presents the original versions of many poems, which Auden revised to conform to his evolving political and literary attitudes later in his career. In this volume, Edward Mendelson has restored the early versions of some thirty poems generally considered to be superior to the later versions, allowing the reader to see the entire range of Auden's work. Selected and edited by Edward Mendelson

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List price: $13.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/16/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

W. H. Auden, who was born in York, England, on February 21, 1907, is one of the most successful and well-known poets of the 20th century. Educated at Oxford, Auden served in the Spanish Civil War, which greatly influenced his work. He also taught in public schools in Scotland and England during the 1930s. It was during this time that he rose to public fame with such works as "Paid on Both Sides" and "The Orators." Auden eventually immigrated to the United States, becoming a citizen in 1946. It was in the U.S. that he met his longtime partner Chester Kallman. Stylistically, Auden was known for his incomparable technique and his linguistic innovations. The term Audenesque became an adjective…

Preface	p. ix
Who stands, the crux left of the watershed	p. 1
From the very first coming down	p. 2
Control of the passes was, he saw, the key	p. 3
Taller to-day, we remember similar evenings	p. 3
Watch any day his nonchalant pauses, see	p. 4
Will you turn a deaf ear	p. 5
Sir, no man's enemy, forgiving all	p. 7
It was Easter as I walked in the public gardens	p. 7
Since you are going to begin to-day	p. 12
Consider this and in our time	p. 14
This lunar beauty	p. 16
To ask the hard question is simple	p. 17
Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle	p. 18
What's in your mind, my dove, my coney	p. 19
"O where are you going?" said reader to rider	p. 20
Though aware of our rank and alert to obey orders	p. 20
O Love, the interest itself in thoughtless Heaven	p. 25
O what is that sound which so thrills the ear	p. 26
Hearing of harvests rotting in the valleys	p. 28
Out on the lawn I lie in bed	p. 29
A shilling life will give you all the facts	p. 32
Our hunting fathers told the story	p. 33
Easily, my dear, you move, easily your head	p. 33
The Summer holds: upon its glittering lake	p. 36
Now through night's caressing grip	p. 41
O for doors to be open and an invite with gilded edges	p. 42
Look, stranger, at this island now	p. 43
Now the leaves are falling fast	p. 43
Dear, though the night is gone	p. 44
Casino	p. 45
Journey to Iceland	p. 46
"O who can ever gaze his fill"	p. 48
Lay your sleeping head, my love	p. 50
Spain	p. 51
Orpheus	p. 55
Miss Gee	p. 55
Wrapped in a yielding air, beside	p. 59
As I walked out one evening	p. 60
Oxford	p. 63
In Time of War	p. 64
The Capital	p. 78
Musee des Beaux Arts	p. 79
Epitaph on a Tyrant	p. 80
In Memory of W. B. Yeats	p. 80
Refugee Blues	p. 83
The Unknown Citizen	p. 85
September 1, 1939	p. 86
Law, say the gardeners, is the sun	p. 89
In Memory of Sigmund Freud	p. 91
Lady, weeping at the crossroads	p. 95
Song for St. Cecilia's Day	p. 96
The Quest	p. 99
But I Can't	p. 110
In Sickness and in Health	p. 111
Jumbled in the common box	p. 115
Atlantis	p. 116
At the Grave of Henry James	p. 119
Mundus et Infans	p. 123
The Lesson	p. 125
The Sea and the Mirror	p. 127
Noon	p. 175
Lament for a Lawgiver	p. 176
Under Which Lyre	p. 178
The Fall of Rome	p. 183
In Praise of Limestone	p. 184
Song	p. 187
A Walk After Dark	p. 188
Memorial for the City	p. 190
Under Sirius	p. 195
Fleet Visit	p. 197
The Shield of Achilles	p. 198
The Willow-Wren and the Stare	p. 200
Nocturne	p. 201
Bucolics	p. 202
Horae Canonicae	p. 216
Homage to Clio	p. 232
First Things First	p. 236
The More Loving One	p. 237
Friday's Child	p. 237
Good-bye to the Mezzogiorno	p. 239
Dame Kind	p. 242
You	p. 245
After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics	p. 246
On the Circuit	p. 248
Et in Arcadia Ego	p. 250
Thanksgiving for a Habitat	p. 252
Epithalamium	p. 278
Fairground	p. 280
River Profile	p. 282
Prologue at Sixty	p. 284
Forty Years On	p. 287
Ode to Terminus	p. 289
August 1968	p. 291
A New Year Greeting	p. 292
Moon Landing	p. 294
Old People's Home	p. 295
Talking to Myself	p. 296
A Lullaby	p. 299
A Thanksgiving	p. 300
Archaeology	p. 302
A Note on the Text	p. 305
Index of Titles and First Lines	p. 307
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