Collected poems
By: W.H. Auden ; edited by Edward Mendelson.
Contributors: Mendelson, Edward.
Edition: 1st Vintage International ed.
Publisher: Vintage International, Vintage Books
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 926
Description: Between 1927 and his death in 1973, W.H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from the mandarin to the invigoratingly plain-spoken. This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.
Notes: "This book contains all the poems that W.H. Auden wished to preserve, in a text that honors his final intentions"--Editor's preface.
Includes indexes.