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The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard by W. H. Auden
Category: Fiction
The Danish philosopher Kierkegaard is one of the master thinkers of the modern age, a defining influence on existentialism and on twentieth-century theology, and this brilliantly tailored selection from his vast and varied writings-made by the great English poet W.H Auden-is a perfect introduction to hi ...Show more
The Orators by W. H. Auden
Category: Poetry
When The Orators was originally published in 1932 it was described by Poetry Review as 'something as important as the appearance of Mr Eliot's poems fifteen years ago'. A long poem written in both prose and verse, it was a powerful addition to the canon of modernist poetry.
W.H. Auden by W.H. Auden
Category: Poetry
W. H. Auden (1907-73) came to prominence in the 1930s among a generation of outspoken poets that included his friends Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender and C. Day Lewis. But he was also an intimate and lyrical poet of great originality, and a master craftsman of some of the most cherished and influential ...Show more
W H Auden - Collected Shorter Poems 1927-57 by W H Auden
Category: Poetry
W.H. Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry and ending with an Horatian expansiveness and conversational sweep, this volume should be essential reading for anyone seriously inte ...Show more
W. H. Auden: Poems Selected by John Fuller by W.H. Auden
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet S.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their introductions, the selectors offer a passionate and accessible introduction to some of the greatest poets in history. W. H. Auden ...Show more
W.H. Auden: Poems Selected by John Fuller by W.H. Auden
Category: Fiction
In this series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express, the selectors offer intriguing insight into their own work.
W. H. Auden: Selected Poems by W.H. Auden
Category: Poetry
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 ...Show more
W. H. Auden's Book of Light Verse by W. H. Auden; Edward Mendelson (Preface by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Auden's celebrated anthology of light verse is packed with surprising finds while also offering a striking rethinking of the poetic canon. Commissioned by Oxford University Press in the 1930s, when Auden's own work was at its boldest, the book caught its original publisher off guard. For it is less a co ...Show more