Auden: Poems

Edited by Edward Mendelson

Author W. H. Auden

Edited by Edward Mendelson

Series Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series

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Presented here in a fine hardcover edition, Poems: Auden is a is a reminder of W. H. Auden’s exhilarating lyric power and his understanding of love and longing in all their sacred and profane guises.

Witty, urbane, civil, and worldly, 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 representative collection displays 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.

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May 10, 1995

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W.H. Auden was born in 1907 and went to Oxford University, where he became Professor of Poetry from 1956 to 1960. After the publication of his Poems in 1930, he became the acknowledged leader of the "thirties poets." His poetic output was prolific, and he also wrote verse plays in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood, with whom he visited china. In 1946 he became a U.S. citizen. He died in 1973.