"A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year"
"A New Statesman Book of the Year"
"A Daily Telegraph Best Poetry Book of the Year"
"A Tablet Book of the Year"
"A dazzling, scholarly triumph."---Michael Dirda, Washington Post
"Mendelson has championed a reassessment of the poets later work. He has not achieved this through polemic, but rather through a patient and careful effort. . . . I have been reading and teaching and writing about Audens poetry for many years, but I have taken the opportunity offered by these two volumes to try, as best I can, to encounter it all anew."---Alan Jacobs, Harper's Magazine
"Glorious."---Bel Mooney, Daily Mail
"Exhilaratingly prospective. . . . some of the most vivid poems ever committed to English . . . these two books are a monument to the acumen, scholarship, and perseverance of Edward Mendelson."---Ron Horning, Brooklyn Rail
"Magnificent. . . . Mendelsons Auden has long been regarded as a monument of literary scholarship, and these two heavy poetry volumes complete the grounds for that acclaim. . . . An amazing thicket of scholarship and commentary draped around some of the most-studied and most-quoted poetry of the 20th century."---Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Review
"To read Audens Complete Works therefore is not just to encounter the inventions of a polymathic, often ingenious writer and poet, but to enter into a whole climate of opinion, to explore an age by way of one of its representative figures. . . . Edifying."---James Matthew Wilson, National Review
"The new two-volume set of W. H. Auden's complete poems, meticulously assembled and presented by Edward Mendelson, is highly recommended."---David Lehman, Best American Poetry Blog
"[Audens] oeuvre has been given a new life. . . . [in these] two new and heavily annotated volumes. . . . [Mendelsons] mastery of this sprawling material is legendary."---Brad Leithauser, Wall Street Journal
"As authoritative a presentation as we are likely ever to get. . . . Wonderful books."---David Mason, Hudson Review
"In a remarkable work of scholarship, editor Edward Mendelson has assembled every poem and every revisionand explains every reference. . . . For the budding or mature poet, its indispensable." * Mosaic *
"A remarkable editorial enterprise."---David Bromwich, Times Literary Supplement
"These volumes show the poetic beauty and intellectual audacity of Audens work with a power that left me exultant."---Richard Davenport-Hines, Times Literary Supplement
"Auden can be magically conversational, charming and sophisticated, vivid, lyrical and amusing. A master of rhyme and metre, he has a brilliant range of allusions and important ideas, wisdom and moral force."---Jeffrey Meyers, PN Review
"A grand thing."---Tristram Fane Saunders, Daily Telegraph
"Mendelson could not have conceived a more fitting tribute to this poet than doing for Audens work what Auden was always attempting to do for his own life: organize it intellectually into a grand system that takes in every detail and provides aesthetic satisfaction to the soul. . . . The definitive edition of Audens poetry."---Stephen J. Schuler, Ad Fontes
"[These two volumes] compiled and magisterially edited by Edward Mendelson, a leading Auden authority, should show readers what a versatile and commanding voice the poet possessed."---Andrew Rosenheim, The Tablet
"Edward Mendelsons two-volume collection of Audens poems, spanning 1927 to 1973, is a welcome arrival, compiled by sage hands. . . . [Mendelson] is perhaps the poets best reader."---Nick Ripatrazone, National Review
