Selected poems, Auden, W.H.

Автор: Auden, W.H.
Название: Collected Poems
ISBN: 0679643508 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679643500
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Описание: To commemorate the centennial of W. H. Audens birth, the Modern Library offers this elegant edition of the collected poems of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.



This volume includes all the poems that Auden wished to preserve, in a text that includes his final revisions, with corrections based on the latest research. Auden divided his poems into sections that corresponded to what he referred to as chapters in his life, each one beginning with a change in his inner life or external circumstances: the moment in 1933 when he first knew exactly what it means to love ones neighbor as oneself; his move from Britain to America in 1939; his first summer in Italy in 1948; his move to a summerhouse in Austria in 1958; and his return to England in 1972.

Audens work has perhaps the widest range and the greatest depth of any English poet of the past three centuries.

From the anxious warnings of his early verse through the expansive historical perspectives of his middle years to the celebrations and thanksgiving in his later work, Auden wrote in a voice that addressed readers personally rather than as part of a collective audience. His styles and forms extend from ballads and songs to haiku and limericks to sonnets, sestinas, prose poems, and dozens of other constructions of his own invention. His tone ranges from spirited comedy to memorable profundityoften within the same work.

His poems manage to be secular and sacred, philosophical and erotic, personal and universal.

All the poems I have written were written for love, Auden once said. This book includes his famous early poems about transient love (Lay your sleeping head, my love, Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone) and his later poems about enduring love (In Sickness and in Health, First Things First).

The book also includes Audens longer, more thematically varied poems, from the expressionist charade Paid on Both Sides to the formal couplets of New Year Letter; the darkly comic sequel to The Tempest, The Sea and the Mirror; and a baroque eclogue set in a wartime bar, The Age of Anxiety.

This new edition includes a critical appreciation of Auden by Edward Mendelson, the editor of the present volume and Audens literary executor.

W. H.

Auden had the greatest gifts of any of our poets in the twentieth century, the greatest lap full of seed.
James Fenton, The New York Review of Books

At the beginning of the new century, [Auden] is an indispensable poet. Even people who dont read poems often turn to poetry at moments when it matters, and Auden matters now.
Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker

Автор: Auden, W. H.
Название: The Dyer`s Hand
ISBN: 0679724842 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679724841
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Описание: This beautifully illustrated book is the first to include translations of over 200 of the texts recovered from the workmen`s village of Deir el-Medina, a uniquely rich source of information about daily life in Ancient Egypt. Each translation is introduced by a commentary that provides the context and explains the contribution the text makes to the understanding of Egyptian society in 1539-1075 BC.

Автор: Auden, W.h. Mendelson, Professor Edward
Название: W. h. Auden prose 1949-1955
ISBN: 0571237614 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571237616
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Описание: Features essays, reviews, and other prose that Auden published or prepared for publication between 1949 - when he wrote his first book of criticism, "The Enchafed Flood" - and december 1955, shortly before he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford and began the series of lectures that he published, with much else, in "The Dyer`s Hand".

Автор: Fuller John
Название: W.H. Auden: A Commentary
ISBN: 0571192726 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571192724
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Описание: Auden`s formal and intellectual range challenges comparison with Eliot or Yeats, and his particular interests - psychological, anthropological, prosodic, theological, historical - lend an added resonance to the texture of his work, all of which is explored and interpreted, with exemplary lucidity, in this most essential of one-volume companions.

Автор: Auden, W.H., MacNeice, Louis
Название: Letters from Iceland
ISBN: 0571283527 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571283521
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Описание: In the summer of 1936, W H Auden and Louis MacNeice visited Iceland on commission to write a travel book, but found themselves capturing concerns on a scale that were far more international. This is a collaboration in poetry and prose, reportage and correspondence, published in 1937 with the Spanish Civil War newly in progress.

Автор: Auden, W. H.
Название: Forewords and Afterwords
ISBN: 0679724850 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679724858
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Описание: The essays in this collection were written as reviews, mainly for The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, on books by or about Alexander Pope, Vincent van Gogh, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, and A. E. Housman, or as introductions to editions of the classical Greek writers, the Protestant mystics, Shakespeare, Goethe, Kierkegaard, Tennyson, Grimm and Andersen, Poe, G. K. Chesterton, Paul Val ry, and others. Throughout, these prose pieces reveal the same wit and intelligence--as well as the vision--that sparked the brilliance of Auden's poetry.

Автор: Auden, W. H.
Название: As I Walked Out One Evening
ISBN: 0679761705 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679761709
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Описание: W. H. Auden once defined light verse as the kind that is written by poets who are democratically in tune with their audience and whose language is straightforward and close to general speech. Given that definition, the 123 poems in this collection all qualify; they are as accessible as popular songs yet have the wisdom and profundity of the greatest poetry.

As I Walked Out One Evening contains some of Auden's most memorable verse: "Now Through the Night's Caressing Grip," "Lullaby: Lay your Sleeping Head, My Love," "Under Which Lyre," and "Funeral Blues." Alongside them are less familiar poems, including seventeen that have never before appeared in book form. Here, among toasts, ballads, limericks, and even a foxtrot, are "Song: The Chimney Sweepers," a jaunty evocation of love, and the hilarious satire "Letter to Lord Byron." By turns lyrical, tender, sardonic, courtly, and risqu , As I Walked Out One Evening is Auden at his most irresistible and affecting.

Автор: Auden, W.H.
Название: As I Walked Out One Evening
ISBN: 0571178987 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571178988
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Описание: A collection of W.H. Auden`s light verse, assembled by his literary executor.

Автор: Mendelson Edward
Название: Later Auden
ISBN: 0571197841 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571197842
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Описание: A history of W.H. Auden's poems from the time he moved to the USA in 1939, and of the events that went into them. It links the changes in Auden's intellectual, religious and domestic life with his shifting public roles, and reveals his struggles with the temptations of his growing fame.