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W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907. His first full-length collection, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber and Faber in 1930.
The many volumes he published thereafter included poetry, plays, essays and libretti, and his ceaseless experimentation, consummate craftsmanship and originality established him as one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. He died in 1973.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in literature.
| The watershed | p. 3 |
| The secret agent | p. 4 |
| Taller to-day | p. 5 |
| Shut your eyes and open your mouth | p. 6 |
| This lunar beauty | p. 7 |
| Argument, part iii (from The orators) | p. 8 |
| Epilogue (from The orators) | p. 10 |
| Getting dressed (from 'In the year of my youth'; pr. 1978) | p. 11 |
| O what is that sound | p. 12 |
| A summer night | p. 14 |
| 'May with its light behaving' | p. 17 |
| The cultural presupposition (from The day beneath the skin) | p. 18 |
| On this island | p. 19 |
| 'Fish in the unruffled lakes' | p. 20 |
| Funeral blues | p. 21 |
| Detective story | p. 22 |
| Spain 1937 | p. 23 |
| The sphinx | p. 27 |
| 'Here war is simple like a monument' (In time of war, xvi) | p. 28 |
| Musee des Beaux Arts | p. 29 |
| Gare du Midi | p. 30 |
| Refugee blues | p. 31 |
| In memory of W. B. Yeats | p. 33 |
| Epitaph on a tyrant | p. 36 |
| 'Carry her over the water' (from Paul Bunyan) | p. 37 |
| 'England to me is my own tongue' (from 'New York letter') | p. 38 |
| If I could tell you | p. 41 |
| Atlantis | p. 42 |
| The lesson | p. 45 |
| Miranda's song (the sea and the mirror, II) | p. 47 |
| 'As yet the young hero's' (from The age of anxiety) | p. 48 |
| Prospector's ballad (from The age of anxiety) | p. 49 |
| The fall of Rome | p. 50 |
| In praise of limestone | p. 51 |
| Cattivo tempo | p. 54 |
| Their lonely betters | p. 56 |
| Fleet visit | p. 57 |
| Lauds (Horae Canonicae, 7) | p. 58 |
| Streams (Bucolics, 7) | p. 59 |
| A permanent way | p. 62 |
| The old man's road | p. 63 |
| There will be no peace | p. 65 |
| Limbo culture | p. 66 |
| Walks | p. 67 |
| Dame kind | p. 69 |
| You | p. 72 |
| A change of air | p. 74 |
| The birth of architecture (thanksgiving for a habitat, I) | p. 76 |
| Recitative by death | p. 78 |
| Et in Arcadia ego | p. 79 |
| Since | p. 81 |
| River profile | p. 83 |
| A mosaic for Marianne Moore | p. 85 |
| August 1968 | p. 87 |
| Pseudo-questions | p. 88 |
| The aliens | p. 89 |
| Short ode to the cuckoo | p. 92 |
| Aubade | p. 93 |
| Address to the beasts | p. 95 |
| No, Plato, no | p. 98 |
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ISBN: 9780571226719
ISBN-10: 057122671X
Series: Poet to Poet
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 112
Published: July 2005
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.0
x 0.8
Weight (kg): 0.08
Edition Number: 1
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