Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 - Hardcover

Auden, W. H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394403339 ISBN 13: 9780394403335

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1967

Synopsis

Compilation of three hundred of the American poet's shorter pieces, arranged chronologically, reflect his development as an enduring literary figure

About this title

Book Description:

Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 by W. H. Auden is essential reading for anyone seriously interested in modern poetry after T. S. Eliot.

About the Author:

W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907 and brought up in Birmingham. His first book, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber in 1930. He went to Spain during the civil war, to Iceland (with Louis MacNeice) and later travelled to China. In 1939 he and Christopher Isherwood left for America, where Auden spent the next fifteen years lecturing, reviewing, writing poetry and opera librettos, and editing anthologies. He became an American citizen in 1946, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. In 1956 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and a year later went to live in Kirchstetten in Austria, after spending several summers on Ischia. He died in Vienna in 1973.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0394403339
• ISBN 13: 9780394403335
• Binding: Hardcover