Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 - Softcover

Auden, W.H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571087353 ISBN 13: 9780571087358

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1969

Synopsis

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 is essential reading for anyone seriously interested in modern poetry after T. S. Eliot.

In his lifetime a controversial, outspoken, yet enigmatic, writer, Auden has gradually come to seem an intimate poet, as we have learned to read him correctly. This volume is the best possible introduction to his consummate craftsmanship and his unparalleled originality which made him the master-poet of his generation.

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: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0571087353
• ISBN 13: 9780571087358
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352