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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone . . . W. H. Auden was the consummate poet of love and heartbreak. Stop All the Clocks presents a selection of his best known, most lucid poems, poems that pitch hum
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 and sonnets "W. H. Auden, poet and critic, will conduct a course on Shakespeare at the New Schoo
Another Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of which date from the early thirties, are about people, places and the
Edward Mendelson has significantly expanded his authoritative, chronological ordered edition of Auden's Selected Poems (first published in 1979), adding twenty items to the hundred in the original edition, and broadening the focus to reflect the wealt
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 the most profound interpretations of Shakespeare's final play in the twentieth century. As W.
Back in print for the first time in decades, Audens National Book Awardwinning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readers The Shield of Achilles , which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W. H.
When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and named. Beginning as
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It included the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works d
The first of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Audens poemsincluding some that have never been published before W. H. Auden (19071973) is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his reputation has only grown
The second of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Audens poemsincluding some that have never been published before W. H. Auden (19071973) is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his reputation has only grown