W. H. Auden, Author, Edward Mendelson, Editor , edited by Edward Mendelson. Vintage $14.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-307-27808-1
One of the 20th century's greatest poets, Auden (1907–1973) has also joined the ranks of its most popular. His "Funeral Blues," a 16-line song about lost love, became a widespread favorite after its use in the film Four Weddings...
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W. H. Auden, Author, Edward Mendelson, Editor , edited by Edward Mendelson. Princeton Univ. $49.50 (779p) ISBN 978-0-691-13326-3
If Auden (1907–1973) had never written a line of verse, we would still remember him as a superb, entertaining, prolific critic, author of essays, reviews, whole books and stand-alone witticisms on poetry, fiction, Christian belief and history,
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W.H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson. Princeton Univ., $65 (856p) ISBN 978-0-691-16458-8
As this sumptuous miscellany shows, Auden (1907–1973) was, in the final years of his life, a prolific writer of essays, book reviews, introductions, and forewords. Nearly half of the volume is taken up by “A Certain World,” a commonplace book that...
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W. H. Auden, Author, Katherine Bucknell, Editor Princeton University Press $47.5 (263p) ISBN 978-0-691-03415-7
This posthumous publication, scrupulously edited and annotated by Bucknell, includes all of the still extant poems written by Auden (Selected Poems) between the ages of 16 and 22. The poems reveal Auden very deliberately cultivating influences:...
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W. H. Auden, Author, Arthur C. Kirsch, Editor Princeton University Press $47.5 (424p) ISBN 978-0-691-05730-9
Given in 1946 at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, Auden's casually erudite, somewhat idiosyncratic lectures on Shakespeare's plays and sonnets may have been lost in manuscript but were not lost on members of his audience, several of whom...
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