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 ...
The notes include the extensive revisions that he made to his poems over the course of his career, and provide explanations of obscure references. The second volume of this edition, Poems, Volume 2: 1940–1973, is also available.
The volume also features an edited version of his incomplete, posthumous book Thank You, Fog, as well as his self-designated “posthumous” poems. The main text presents the poems in their original published versions.
Arthur Kirsch's edition of this work is a fine addition to the canon of Auden scholarship. This book will fascinate all readers of Auden, and of Shakespeare."--Nicholas Jenkins
This edition provides the most accurate text of the poem, a detailed introduction by Alan Jacobs that explains its themes and sets the poem in its proper contexts, and thorough annotations of its references and allusions.
This book contains ten of his poems about love. They range in mood from the exhilaration of a new love affair, through love's anxieties and fears, to the sorrow that comes with the end of love. "From the Trade Paperback edition.
Fifteen famous love poems and cabaret songs written in the 1930s by W. H. Auden, including 'Funeral Blues' as featured in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Contains poems about people, places and the intellectual climate of the times. This volume by Auden was published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939.
Originally published: New York: Random House, 1947. "Fascinating and hair-raising."--Leonard Bernstein "[One of] Auden's outstanding American works."--Stephen Spender