Browse by category
Markings by Dag Hammarskjold; W. H. Auden (Introduction by)
Category: Biography | Series: Faber Library
"Perhaps the greatest testament of personal devotion published in this century." -- The New York Times A powerful journal of poems and spiritual meditations recorded over several decades by a universally known and admired peacemaker. A dramatic account of spiritual struggle, Markings has inspired hund ...Show more
Poems (1930) by W. H. Auden
Category: Poetry
Auden's electrifying, enigmatic and extraordinarily influential debut collection was published by Faber in 1930, and simply entitled Poems. For the second edition (1933) he omitted seven items and added new poems in their place. Available again for the first time since 1950, this reissue follows the tex ...Show more
Poets of the English Language: Blake to Poe: v. 4: Romantic Poets - Blake to Poe by W. H. Auden
Category: Poetry | Series: Viking portable library
DESCRIPTION OF BOOK: A MASTERFUL SELECTION OF WORKS FROM ONE OF THE RICHEST OF ALL LITERARY PERIODS. WILLIAM BLAKE, ROBERT BURNS,SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, LORD BYRON, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, JOHN KEATS, RALPH WALDO EMERSON, EDGAR ALLAN POE. AND MANY OTHERS. "I FIND IT HARD TO USE ANYTHI ...Show more
Selected Poems: Simon Armitage by Simon Armitage; W. H. Auden; Sue Roberts
Category: Poetry & Plays
This selection provides a perfect introduction to Armitage's work as well as offering a timely retrospective of one of the brightest stars of contemporary poetry. Made by Simon Armitage himself from his poetry to date, Selected Poems includes work from six published volumes, from Zoom! (1989) through to ...Show more
Selected Poems: W H Auden by W.H. Auden
Category: Poetry
For many years there existed a general feeling that the selection made by Auden himself in 1968 was far from satisfactory. It was too short to provide a full introduction to such a large body of work; perhaps it was too weighted in favour of the later poetry; at the time it was made some famous poems, o ...Show more
Selected Poems: W. H. Auden by W. H. Auden
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The author has restored the early vision of some 30 of his greatest poems, generally considered to be superior to the later versions. Edited by Edward Medelson.
THE AGE OF ANXIETY A BAROQUE ECLOGUE by AUDEN W H
Category: Poetry | Series: W. H. Auden: Critical Editions Ser.
When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and named. Beginning as a conversation among four strangers in a barroom on N ...Show more
The 40s - The Story of a Decade - The New Yorker by New Yorker Magazine Editors; David Remnick (Introduction by); J. D. Salinger (Contribution by); Zadie Smith (Contribution by); E. B. White (Contribution by); W. H. Auden (Contribution by); Elizabeth Bishop (Contribution by); Henry Finder (Editor)
Category: REM Cultural Studies | Series: New Yorker: the Story of a Decade Ser.
Including contributions by W. H. Auden - Elizabeth Bishop - John Cheever - Janet Flanner - John Hersey - Langston Hughes - Shirley Jackson - A. J. Liebling - William Maxwell - Carson McCullers - Joseph Mitchell - Vladimir Nabokov - Ogden Nash - John O'Hara - George Orwell - V. S. Pritchett - Lillian Ros ...Show more
The 40sThe Story of a Decade by New Yorker Magazine Staff; Henry Finder (Editor); David Remnick (Introduction by); W. H. Auden (Contribution by); Elizabeth Bishop (Contribution by)
Category: History | Series: New Yorker: the Story of a Decade Ser.
Including contributions by W. H. Auden - Elizabeth Bishop - John Cheever - Janet Flanner - John Hersey - Langston Hughes - Shirley Jackson - A. J. Liebling - William Maxwell - Carson McCullers - Joseph Mitchell - Vladimir Nabokov - Ogden Nash - John O'Hara - George Orwell - V. S. Pritchett - Lillian Ros ...Show more
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume I - 1927-1939 by W. H. Auden; Edward Mendelson (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Complete Works of W. H. Auden Ser.
The first of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden's poems--including some that have never been published beforeW. H. Auden (1907-1973) is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his reputation has only grown since his death. Published on the hundredth an ...Show more
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume II - 1940-1973 by W. H. Auden; Edward Mendelson (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Complete Works of W. H. Auden Ser.
The second of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden's poems--including some that have never been published beforeW. H. Auden (1907-1973) is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his reputation has only grown since his death. Published on the hundredth a ...Show more