W. H. Auden

Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden’s National Book Award–winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readers

The second of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden’s poems—including some that have never been published before

The first of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden’s poems—including some that have never been published before

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

This volume contains Auden and Christopher Isherwood's dramatic extravaganzas The Dog Beneath the Skin, the Ascent of F 6, and On the Frontier. It also includes the two versions of Paid on Both Sides--which are so different as to...

The penultimate volume of the complete prose of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century

The final volume of the complete prose of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers

The first critical edition of Auden's only explicitly religious long poem

The first critical edition of a poem that named an era

A definitive volume of Auden’s prose that includes his important work The Dyer’s Hand

This volume contains all of W. H. Auden's prose works from 1949 through 1955, including many little-known essays that exemplify his range, wit, depth, and wisdom. The book includes the complete text of Auden's first separately published...

Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, "The Sea and the Mirror" is not merely a great poem but ranks as one of the most profound interpretations of Shakespeare's final play in the twentieth century....

You know the terror that for poets lurks
Beyond the ferry when to Minos brought.
Poets must utter their Collected Works,

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...

This book contains all the essays and reviews that W. H. Auden wrote during the years when he was living in England, and also includes the full original versions of his two illustrated travel books, Letters from Iceland (written in...

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...