W. H Auden

From one of the great modern writers, the acclaimed lectures, in which he draws on a lifetime of experience to take the measure of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets "W. H. Auden, poet and critic, will conduct a course on Shakespeare at the New School for Social Research beginning Wednesday. Mr. Auden... proposes to read all Shakespeare's plays in chronological order." So, the New York Times reported on September 27, 1946, giving notice of a rare opportunity...

Contains all the poems that W.H. Auden wished to preserve including three poems printed for the first time and four poems he previously rejected.

Featuring commentary by J. D. McClatchy, exclusive archival material, and detailed biographies, Random House Audio Voices presents The Voice of the Poet series, a collection of legendary 20th century American poets reading their own work. Here, listeners experience the encyclopedic and stylistic poetry of W. H. Auden.

This volume - Mr. Auden's first collection of new poems since About the House (1965) - reveals the continuing development of one of the most remarkable poetic voices of our time. Mr. Auden's new book opens on a note of dread and anger, though touched with irony, and concludes with a prologue which celebrates the well-remembered world that made him, acknowledges with some affection the city that now houses him, and prays that he and an increasingly...

About half of these poems are about the rooms in the author's house in Vienna; the others are new poems on various subjects, previously uncollected.