The complete works of W.H. Auden : poems / W.H. Auden ; edited by Edward Mendelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Mendelson, Edward, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--20th century.

English poetry.

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

American prose literature--20th century.

American prose literature.

English prose literature--20th century.

English prose literature.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (808 pages) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"W. H. Auden (1907-1973) is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his reputation has only grown since his death. Published on the hundredth anniversary of the year in which he began to write poetry, this is the first of two volumes of the first complete edition of Auden's poems. Edited, introduced, and annotated by renowned Auden scholar Edward Mendelson, this definitive edition includes all the poems Auden wrote for publication, in their original texts, and all his later revised versions, as well as poems and songs he never published, some of them printed here for the first time. This volume traces the development of Auden's early career, and contains all the poems, including juvenilia, that he published or submitted for publication, from his first printed work, in 1927, at age twenty, through the poems he wrote during his first months in America, in 1939, when he was thirty-two. The book also includes poems that Auden wrote during his adult career with the expectation that he might publish them, but which he never did; song lyrics that he wrote to be set to music by Benjamin Britten, but which he never put into print; and verses that he wrote for magazines at schools where he was teaching. The main text presents the poems in their original published versions. The notes include the extensive revisions that he made to his poems over the course of his career, and provide explanations of obscure references." --Amazon.com.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: POEMS 1930-1939

Poems (1930; second edition 1933)

Other Poems, 1927-1930

The Orators

Other Poems, 1931-1935

On this Island

Other Poems, 1936-1939

Poems from Letters from Iceland

Poems from Journey to a War

Another Time

JUVENILIA: EARLY POEMS, 1922-1928

Poems (1928)

Other Published Poems, 1922-1928

APPENDICES

I. Verses for School Magazines, 1933-1939

II. Our Hunting Fathers

III. Poems Abandoned before Publication

IV. Songs and Other Musical Pieces Abandoned before Publication

TEXTUAL NOTES

Another Time.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780691219295

069121929X

9780691219301

0691219303

OCLC:

1317831753