W.H. Auden: Critical Editions

For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio W. H. Auden
Edited by Alan Jacobs

For the Time Being is a pivotal book in the career of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. W. H. Auden had recently moved to America, fallen in love with a young man to whom he considered himself married, rethought his...

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue W. H. Auden
Edited by Alan Jacobs

When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and...

The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare's The Tempest W. H. Auden
Edited by Arthur C. Kirsch

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....

Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928 - Expanded Paperback Edition W. H. Auden
Edited by Katherine Bucknell

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

Lectures on Shakespeare W. H. Auden
Edited by Arthur C. Kirsch

"W. H. Auden, poet and critic, will conduct a course on Shakespeare at the New School for Social Research beginning Wednesday. Mr. Auden has announced that in his course . . . he proposes to read all Shakespeare's plays in chronological...