Collected Poems by W H Auden

Collected Poems by W H Auden

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.

Auden was born in 1907 in York, England. In 1930, he released his first book of poems, which was followed by a dozen volumes of shorter and longer poems. He wrote books about his journeys to Iceland (with Louis MacNeice) and wartime China (with Christopher Isherwood) and worked on three plays with Christopher Isherwood. He moved to New York in 1939 and became an American citizen in 1946. He wrote opera libretti for Igor Stravinsky, Hans Werner Henze, and Nicolas Nabokov alongside his colleague Chester Kallman.

Auden returned to Oxford from his winter residence in New York in 1972. In 1973, he died in Vienna.

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ISBN 13	9780679643500
ISBN 10	0679643508
Title	Collected Poems
Author	W H Auden
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2007-02-13
Number of pages	976
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