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Author Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973.

Title Collected poems / W.H. Auden ; edited by Edward Mendelson.

Publication Info. New York : Vintage International, Vintage Books, 1991.

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Edition 1st Vintage International ed.
Description xxvii, 926 pages ; 21 cm.
Series Vintage international
Note "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.
Contents Part I. Paid on both sides (1928) -- Part II. 1927-1932. The letter -- Taller to-day -- Missing -- The secret agent -- The watershed -- No change of place -- Let history be my judge -- Never stronger -- This loved one -- Easy knowledge -- Too dear, too vague -- Between adventure -- A free one -- Family ghosts -- The questioner who sits so sly -- Venus will now say a few words -- 1929 -- The bonfires -- On Sunday walks -- Shorts -- Happy ending -- This lunar beauty -- The question -- Five songs -- Uncle Henry -- Consider -- The wanderer -- The watchers -- Adolescence -- The exiles -- The decoys -- Have a good time -- Half way -- Ode -- Legend -- The witnesses --
Part III. Letter to Lord Byron (1936) -- Part IV. 1933-1938. A summer night -- Paysage moralisé -- O what is that sound -- Our hunting fathers -- Through the looking-glass -- Two climbs -- Meiosis -- A misunderstanding -- Who's who -- Schoolchildren -- May -- A bride in the 30's -- On this island -- Night mail -- As I walked out one evening -- Twelve songs -- His excellency -- Casino -- Oxford -- Dover -- Journey to Iceland -- Detective story -- Death's echo -- The price -- Danse macabre -- Lullaby -- Orpheus -- Miss Gee -- James Honeyman -- Victor -- As he is -- A voyage -- The capital -- Brussels in winter -- Musée des Beaux Arts -- Gare du Midi -- The novelist -- The composer -- Rimbaud -- A.E. Housman -- Edward Lear -- Epitaph on a tyrant -- Sonnets from China --
Part V. New Year letter (1940) -- Part VI. 1939-1947. In memory of W.B. Yeats -- In memory of Ernst Toller -- Voltaire at Ferney -- Herman Melville -- The unknown citizen -- They -- The prophets -- Like a vocation -- The riddle -- Heavy date -- Law like love -- The hidden law -- Ten songs -- In memory of Sigmund Freud -- Another time -- Our bias -- Hell -- Lady weeping at the crossroads -- Anthem for St. Cecilia's Day -- The dark years -- The quest -- Shorts -- No time -- Diaspora -- Luther -- Montaigne -- The council -- The maze -- Blessed event -- Kairos and Logos -- At the grave of Henry James -- Alone -- Leap before you look -- If I could tell you -- Atlantis -- In sickness and in health -- Many happy returns -- Mundus et infans -- Few and simple -- The lesson -- A healthy spot -- The model -- Canzone -- Anthem -- The fall of Rome -- Nursery rhyme -- In Schrafft's -- Under which lyre -- Music is international -- The duet -- Pleasure Island -- A walk after dark --
Part VII. For the time being (1941-1942) -- Part VIII. The sea and the mirror (1942-1944) -- Part IX. The age of anxiety (1944-1946) -- Part X. 1948-1957. In transit -- In praise of limestone -- Ischia -- Under Sirius -- Cattivo tempo -- Hunting season -- Fleet visit -- An island cemetery -- Not in Baedeker -- Ode to Gaea -- Bucolics -- Shorts -- Five songs -- Three occasional poems -- Their lonely betters -- First things first -- The more loving one -- A permanent way -- Nocturne -- Precious five -- Memorial for the city -- The shield of Achilles -- Secondary epic -- Makers of history -- T the great -- The managers -- The epigoni -- Bathtub thoughts -- The old man's road -- The history of science -- The history of truth -- Homage to Clio -- The love feast -- The chimaeras -- Merax and Mullin -- Limbo culture -- There will be no peace -- A household -- "The truest poetry is the most feigning" -- We too had known golden hours -- Secrets -- Numbers and faces -- Objects -- Words -- The song -- One circumlocution -- Horae canonicae -- Good-bye to the mezzogiorno --
Part XI. Dichtung und wahrheit (1959) -- Part XII. 1958-1971. Dame kind -- Reflections in a forest -- Hands -- The sabbath -- Walks -- Friday's child -- Academic grafitti -- Thanksgiving for a habitat -- Shorts I -- Two Don Quixote lyrics -- A change of air -- You -- Et in arcadia ego -- Hammerfest -- Iceland revisited -- On the circuit -- Symmetries and asymmetries -- The maker -- At the party -- Bestiaries are out -- After reading a child's guide to modern physics -- Ascension Day, 1964 -- Whitsunday in Kirchstetten -- Three posthumous poems -- City without walls -- Eleven occasional poems -- The Horatians -- Profile -- Since -- Amor loci -- Bird-language -- Two songs -- Forty years on -- Marginalia -- In due season -- Rois Fainéants -- Partition -- August 1968 -- Fairground -- River profile -- Insignificant elephants -- Ode to Terminus -- Six commissioned texts -- Prologue at sixty -- Epistle to a godson -- The art of healing -- A new year greeting -- Smelt and tasted -- Heard and seen -- I am not a camera -- A bad night -- Moon landing -- The garrison -- Pseudo-questions -- Stark bewölkt -- Natural linguistics -- The aliens -- Doggerel by a senior citizen -- Shorts II -- Old people's home -- Circe -- Short ode to the cuckoo -- Ode to the medieval poets -- An encounter -- A shock -- Loneliness -- Talking to dogs -- Talking to mice -- Talking to myself --
Part XIII. 1972-1973. Lullaby -- Unpredictable but providential -- Ode to the diencephalon -- Progress? -- Nocturne -- Aubade -- A curse -- Shorts -- Thank you, fog -- No, Plato, no -- Address to the beasts -- A thanksgiving -- A contract -- Posthumous letter to Gilbert White -- The question -- Archaeology.
Summary 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.
Subject Poetry.
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
Genre/Form Poetry (OCoLC)fst01423828
Poetry.
Added Author Mendelson, Edward.
Added Title Poems
Other Form: Online version: Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973. Poems. Collected poems. 1st Vintage International ed. New York : Vintage International, Vintage Books, 1991 (OCoLC)646988411
ISBN 0679731970
9780679731979
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