Features essays, reviews, and other prose that Auden published or prepared for publication between 1949 - when he wrote his first book of criticism, "The Enchafed Flood" - and december 1955, shortly before he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford and began the series of lectures that he publishe[...]

W. H. Auden called opera the 'last refuge of the High Style', and considered it the one art in which the grand manner survived the ironic levelings of modernity. He began writing libretti soon after he arrived in America in 1939 and abandoned his earlier attempts to write public, political drama. Op[...]

W. H. Auden's first ten years in the United States were marked by rapid and extensive change in his life and thought. He became an American citizen, fell in love with Chester Kallman, and began to reflect on American culture and to explore the ideas of Reinhold Niebuhr and other Protestant theologia[...]

This is a reawakened love for the sound of poetry has made modern poems subtly different from the poems of the eighteenth and nineteenth centures. We have only to listen to these poets reading their own works to know how important their interpretations are to a full comprehension of their poems. The[...]

Explores the contextual and critical material that surrounds W H Auden's work, including suggestions for further reading.[...]

W. H. Auden is a giant of twentieth-century English poetry whose writings demonstrate a sustained engagement with the times in which he lived. But how did the century's shifting cultural terrain affect him and his work? Written by distinguished poets and scholars, these brief but authoritative essay[...]

Serves as a reference work dealing with all of Auden's writings. For every poem, play or libretto, this work encapsulates the publishing history, paraphrases difficult passages, explains allusions, points out interesting variants, identifies sources and influences, looks at the verse form and offers[...]

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. Poems selected by John Fuller.[...]

Reflects the wealth of forms, the rhetorical and tonal range, and the variousness of content in Auden's poetry. This volume also includes examples of Auden's mastery of light verse: the self-descriptive sequence of haiku called 'Profiles', the barbed wartime quatrains of 'Leap Before You Look', or '[...]