Selected Poems

W. H. Auden, Selected Poems: '[He] has made himself into a kind of unofficial poet laureate. If I am bombed I hope he will write a few sapphics about me.' Stephen Spender, 1941

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A significantly expanded edition of the poetry collection, which was first published in 1979. 'If I am bombed, I hope he will write a few sapphics about me' Stephen Spender, 1941 W. H. Auden, Selected Poems : '[He] has made himself into a kind of unofficial poet laureate. If I am bombed I hope he will write a few sapphics about me.' Stephen Spender, 1941 Zusammenfassung 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.

Vorwort
W. H. Auden, Selected Poems: '[He] has made himself into a kind of unofficial poet laureate. If I am bombed I hope he will write a few sapphics about me.' Stephen Spender, 1941

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext

A significantly expanded edition of the poetry collection, which was first published in 1979. 'If I am bombed, I hope he will write a few sapphics about me' Stephen Spender, 1941

Zusammenfassung
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.