W.H. Auden: Critical Editions⁵

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

The first critical edition of a poem that named an era

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,