W. H. Auden Selected Poem - Softcover

Auden, W. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394725069 ISBN 13: 9780394725062

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1979

Synopsis

This re-edited volume restores the original versions of poems that Auden had at one time revised and replaced to bring his earlier works more into line with his later beliefs

About this title

Product Description:

faber pbk,1975

About the Author:

W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907, and 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: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0394725069
• ISBN 13: 9780394725062
• Binding: Paperback