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Selected Poems
W.h. Auden
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Description for Selected Poems
Paperback. 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 'Funeral Blues' itself. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 420.
Edward Mendelson has significantly expanded his authoritative, chronological ordered edition of Auden's Selected Poems (first published in 1979), adding twenty items to the hundred in the original edition, and broadening the focus to reflect the wealth of forms, the rhetorical and tonal range, and the variousness of content in Auden's poetry, in the confines of one volume. In particular, there are newly included 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 'Funeral Blues' itself. Also included are brief notes explaining references that may have ... Read more
Edward Mendelson has significantly expanded his authoritative, chronological ordered edition of Auden's Selected Poems (first published in 1979), adding twenty items to the hundred in the original edition, and broadening the focus to reflect the wealth of forms, the rhetorical and tonal range, and the variousness of content in Auden's poetry, in the confines of one volume. In particular, there are newly included 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 'Funeral Blues' itself. Also included are brief notes explaining references that may have ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571241538
SKU
V9780571241538
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About W.h. Auden
Edward Mendelson is the literary executor of the Estate of W.H. Auden and the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His books include Early Auden, Later Auden and The Things That Matter. His edition of W.H. Auden's Prose (Volume III, 1949-1955) was published by Faber in 2008.
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