Another Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
In New York in 1946-7 Auden undertook to lecture informally on all Shakespeare's plays (except Titus Andronicus and The Merry Wives of Windsor) as well as the Sonnets. Since he believed that 'criticism is live conversation' he discarded his manuscript after each session and it is only thanks to his friend and secretary, Alan Ansen, and some other members of the audience, that the text of this brilliant critical and intellectual feat has been recovered. Some passages were later re-worked in The Dyer's Hand but essentially this is a fresh, exhilarating and witty new experience for Auden's admirers, and an extraordinary addition to the canon of Shakespeare commentaries. Format:Hardcover
WH Auden
ISBN:9780571132973
This highly amusing and unorthodox travel book resulted from a light-hearted summer journey by the young poets Auden and MacNeice in 1936. Their letters home...more details Format:Paperback
Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic Faber poetry covers...more details Format:Paperback Pages:80
This edition presents the original versions of 30 poems, which Auden revised to conform to his evolving political and literary attitudes later in his career. Format:Book
Fifteen famous love poems and cabaret songs written in the 1930s by W. H. Auden, including 'Funeral Blues' as featured in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral. Format:Paperback Pages:48
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:112
This is the fourth volume in a complete edition of Auden's works, following Plays, Libretti and Prose Volume I - 1926-1938. The collection of 580 pages includes the essays...more details Format:Hardcover