In 1972 Auden left his winter home in New York and returned to Oxford. In collaboration with his companion Chester Kallman, he composed opera libretti for Igor Stravinsky, Hans Werner Henze, and Nicholas Nabokov. In 1939 he settled in New York and became an American citizen in 1946. He collaborated on three plays with Christopher Isherwood and wrote books about his travels to Iceland (with Louis MacNeice) and wartime China (with Christopher Isherwood). His first book of poems was published in 1930, followed by a dozen volumes of shorter and longer poems. Auden was born in York, England, in 1907. Together, these works display 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. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. 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. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. Notify me when this comes back in stock.Between 1927 and his death in 1973, W. Friendly to what the sensual call death, Placing their lives below the dogs who love. The apple tree that cannot measure time Might taste the apple yet not be condemned: They, to enjoy it, must renounce the world.

citizen, and Christianity (specifically the influence of Kierkegaard and the modern Protestant theologians) took the place of socialism as Auden's central preoccupation. Night and the rivers sang a chthonic love, Destroyer of cities and the daylight order, But seemed to them weak arguments for death. In 1939, he immigrated to America and later became a U.S. He was the best known of a group of British writers of Marxist sympathies who hoped that socialism might be the answer to the economic and political problems of the period. Auden (1907- ), an English poet and dramatist whose most influential work was written during the 1930s. Includes a special message to members by Stephen Spender. Item #161530 The revised edition of this classic, signed by Barth on a tissue-guarded free preliminary page. Silk moire end papers satin place-holder ribbon and all edges gilt.

Auden: The Far Interior (London: Vision, 1985). Red leather with elaborate gilt decoration and lettering to covers and spine. Walter Perrie, Auden's Political Vision, 51, in Alan Bold, ed., W. and Edweard Mendelson (Editor)įranklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1976. When finished, Edward Mendelson's critical edition of Auden's Complete Works will solve these problems concerning.

Collected Poems by W.H. Auden