
Selected Poems
W.H. Auden(Author)
Faber & Faber (Publisher)
Published on 4. February 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
376 pages
978-0-571-24153-8 (ISBN)
Description
Edward Mendelson has significantly expanded his authoritative, chronological ordered edition of Auden's Selected Poems (first published in 1979), adding twenty items to the hundred in the original edition, and broadening the focus to reflect the wealth of forms, the rhetorical and tonal range, and the variousness of content in Auden's poetry, in the confines of one volume. In particular, there are newly included examples of Auden's mastery of light verse: the self-descriptive sequence of haiku called 'Profiles', the barbed wartime quatrains of 'Leap Before You Look', or 'Funeral Blues' itself. Also included are brief notes explaining references that may have become obscure, and a revised introduction drawing on recent additions to Auden scholarship.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
419 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-24153-8 (9780571241538)
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Person
Edward Mendelson is the literary executor of the Estate of W.H. Auden and the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His books include Early Auden, Later Auden and The Things That Matter. His edition of W.H. Auden's Prose (Volume III, 1949-1955) was published by Faber in 2008.