Selected Poems by W H Auden
This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden's Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, tone, and content in Auden's work. Newly included are such favorites as Funeral Blues and other works that represent Auden's lighter, comic side, giving a fuller picture of the range of his genius. Also new are brief notes explaining references that may have become obscure to younger generations of readers and a revised introduction that draws on recent additions to knowledge about Auden. As in the original edition, the new Selected Poems makes available the preferred original versions of some thirty poems that Auden revised later in life, making it the best source for enjoying the many facets of Auden's art in one volume.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 | 9780679724834 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679724834 |
| Title | Selected Poems |
| Author | W H Auden |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Books USA |
| Year published | 1990-01-16 |
| Number of pages | 314 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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