Product Description

This collection of the poems of W.H. Auden includes three poems referred to by Auden as "posthumous poems", and others that he omitted from the "Collected Shorter Poems" of 1966, printed here in revised versions found among his papers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #734275 in Books
• Published on: 1994-07-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 954 pages

Review
Auden, who gripped me in my teens, has a large canon: the technical virtuosity is extraordinary, the heightened demotic speech is the best of the 20th-century. Start where you will but do not fail to read 'In Praise of Limestone' and 'The Shield of Achilles'. Review by Richard Hoggart, whose books include 'The Uses of Literacy' and 'First and Last Things' (Kirkus UK)