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"What does the song hope for? And the moved hands/A little way from the birds, the shy, the delightful?"

Auden's verse is magnificent; he writes his villanelles and sonnets without a trace of the "unctious urbani...more...]]> 75155560 2811395 65349 0679724834 9780679724834 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170632903m/65349.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170632903s/65349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65349.W_H_Auden_Selected_Poems 4.24 522 1979 4 0 false Tue Oct 20 13:39:42 -0700 2009 Sun Dec 13 11:15:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 23380852 420400 65349 0679724834 9780679724834 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170632903m/65349.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170632903s/65349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65349.W_H_Auden_Selected_Poems 4.24 522 1979 4 0 false Sat May 31 10:48:02 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 11:01:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 60628569 1438952 65349 0679724834 9780679724834 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170632903m/65349.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170632903s/65349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65349.W_H_Auden_Selected_Poems 4.24 522 1979 5 0 false Mon Jun 22 07:59:12 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 08:05:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 63012808 2205814 65349 0679724834 9780679724834 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170632903m/65349.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170632903s/65349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65349.W_H_Auden_Selected_Poems 4.24 522 1979 3 2 false Sat Jul 11 04:49:40 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 04:52:56 -0700 2009
For Heather...
Because poetry can heal the soul.
With love,
Jason
(Dec. 2001)

I've spent many an hour wondering about Jason and Heather, whether poetry did in fact heal her soul, and why a gift given with love ended up on...more...]]> 38951506 69413 982532 0394725069 9780394725062 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/982532.Selected_Poems_of_W_H_Auden 4.24 522 1979 4 0 false Thu Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 12:03:03 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 12:04:18 -0800 2008
I like him best "For Friends Only"

Easy at first, the language of friendship
Is, as we soon discover,
very difficult to speak well . . .

Worst in "The Common Life"

. . . the home...more...]]> 65100773 188511 20704 0307278085 9780307278081 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298634m/20704.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298634s/20704.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20704.Selected_Poems 4.24 522 Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, tone, and content in Auden’s work. Newly included are such favorites as “Funeral Blues” and other works that represent Auden’s lighter, comic side, giving a fuller picture of the range of his genius. Also new are brief notes explaining references that may have become obscure to younger generations of readers and a revised introduction that draws on recent additions to knowledge about Auden.

As in the original edition, the new Selected Poems makes available the preferred original versions of some thirty poems that Auden revised later in life, making it the best source for enjoying the many facets of Auden’s art in one volume.]]> 1979 5 0 false Mon Jul 27 01:44:02 -0700 2009 Wed Dec 16 18:37:42 -0800 2009 It's a pleasure to read a poet who's range of style and subject nearly the entire galaxy of poetry, from little haikus and ironic stand-alone couplets, to lengthy meditations on religion and literature and history, to wonderful little pastoral poems. His breathed new...more...]]> 22400991 600126 65349 0679724834 9780679724834 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170632903m/65349.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170632903s/65349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65349.W_H_Auden_Selected_Poems 4.24 522 1979 3 0 false Fri May 16 17:50:38 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 18:12:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 17082080 964277 65349 0679724834 9780679724834 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170632903m/65349.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170632903s/65349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65349.W_H_Auden_Selected_Poems 4.24 522 1979 5 0 false Wed Mar 05 09:49:16 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 09:49:16 -0800 2008
S...more...]]> 3796762 216284 65349 0679724834 9780679724834 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170632903m/65349.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170632903s/65349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65349.W_H_Auden_Selected_Poems 4.24 522 1979 3 0 false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jul 30 10:56:02 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 02:51:53 -0800 2009
Follow, poet, fo...more...]]> 11314905 49620 65349 0679724834 9780679724834 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170632903m/65349.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170632903s/65349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65349.W_H_Auden_Selected_Poems 4.24 522 1979 4 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 20:58:45 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 21:01:24 -0800 2007 more...]]> 16096964 932887 65349 0679724834 9780679724834 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170632903m/65349.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170632903s/65349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65349.W_H_Auden_Selected_Poems 4.24 522 1979 1 0 false Thu Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Feb 22 11:10:23 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 08:41:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 37579069 1682191 20704 0307278085 9780307278081 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298634m/20704.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298634s/20704.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20704.Selected_Poems 4.24 522 Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, tone, and content in Auden’s work. Newly included are such favorites as “Funeral Blues” and other works that represent Auden’s lighter, comic side, giving a fuller picture of the range of his genius. Also new are brief notes explaining references that may have become obscure to younger generations of readers and a revised introduction that draws on recent additions to knowledge about Auden.

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The Shakespeare Lectures are great, too, assuming bi-level geek status.]]> 2261114 147240 65349 0679724834 9780679724834 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170632903m/65349.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170632903s/65349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65349.W_H_Auden_Selected_Poems 4.24 522 1979 4 0 false Fri Jun 22 12:36:24 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 15 17:43:34 -0800 2007 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=20704