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This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.]]> 321538 8 581787 1976 Collected Poems: Auden total:409|5:224|4:131|3:41|2:11|1:2| 409 1791 588 27 524417 4.22 2088 191 3404142 205802 321538 0679731970 9780679731979 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427m/321538.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427s/321538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321538.Collected_Poems_Auden 4.39 322
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.]]> 1976 5 2 false Mon Jul 23 07:35:21 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 01:37:37 -0800 2009
As the poets have mournfully sung,
Death takes the innocent young,
The rolling-in-money,
The screamingly-funny,
And those who are very well hung.]]> 3768591 222991 321538 0679731970 9780679731979 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427m/321538.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427s/321538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321538.Collected_Poems_Auden 4.38 409
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.]]> 1976 4 1 false Sun Jul 29 20:01:05 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 03 09:19:06 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1997436 118558 321538 0679731970 9780679731979 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427m/321538.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427s/321538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321538.Collected_Poems_Auden 4.38 409
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.]]> 1976 4 1 false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jun 15 08:24:57 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 15 08:27:37 -0700 2007
It's nice to have the whole collection of poems, but there are a lot of totally forgettable ones in here.

However, some of his work is so starkly and utterly beautiful, this is a collection I'll always...more...]]> 47025695 101061 321538 0679731970 9780679731979 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427m/321538.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427s/321538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321538.Collected_Poems_Auden 4.38 409
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.]]> 1976 3 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 23:19:51 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 19 10:44:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 10189907 55874 321538 0679731970 9780679731979 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427m/321538.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427s/321538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321538.Collected_Poems_Auden 4.38 409
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.]]> 1976 3 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 09 16:39:23 -0800 2007 Thu Feb 28 10:57:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 75327310 46405 321538 0679731970 9780679731979 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427m/321538.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427s/321538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321538.Collected_Poems_Auden 4.38 409
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.]]> 1976 5 0 false Fri Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Oct 21 20:38:49 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 20:40:23 -0700 2009 38537293 1065537 321538 0679731970 9780679731979 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427m/321538.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427s/321538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321538.Collected_Poems_Auden 4.38 409
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.]]> 1976 2 0 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 24 10:29:36 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 10:32:33 -0800 2008 75717380 2595448 321538 0679731970 9780679731979 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427m/321538.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427s/321538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321538.Collected_Poems_Auden 4.38 409
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.]]> 1976 3 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Oct 25 18:01:40 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 18:01:40 -0700 2009 47299174 1192927 321538 0679731970 9780679731979 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427m/321538.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427s/321538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321538.Collected_Poems_Auden 4.38 409
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.]]> 1976 4 0 false Mon Feb 23 15:09:28 -0800 2009 Sat May 23 17:43:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 65100772 188511 321538 0679731970 9780679731979 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427m/321538.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427s/321538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321538.Collected_Poems_Auden 4.38 409
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.]]> 1976 5 0 false Mon Jul 27 01:44:00 -0700 2009 Wed Dec 16 18:39:23 -0800 2009 Don't forget to also get W H Auden 'Selected Poems', for that contains many poems not included here, b/c Auden removed them from his own canon.more...]]> 26242618 53187 321538 0679731970 9780679731979 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427m/321538.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427s/321538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321538.Collected_Poems_Auden 4.38 409
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.]]> 1976 5 0 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 15:03:44 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 15:12:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 9458866 636744 321538 0679731970 9780679731979 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427m/321538.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427s/321538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321538.Collected_Poems_Auden 4.38 409
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.]]> 1976 5 0 false Fri Nov 23 12:44:07 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 25 00:33:44 -0800 2007 62352715 2444995 321538 0679731970 9780679731979 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427m/321538.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427s/321538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321538.Collected_Poems_Auden 4.38 409
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.]]> 1976 5 0 false Mon Jul 06 11:22:52 -0700 2009 Tue Dec 08 14:22:15 -0800 2009 I've been leafing the pages. Preparing to see the new Bennett play, if I can get day tickets. ]]> 35720904 1486517 152530 0679643508 9780679643500 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172244317m/152530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172244317s/152530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/152530.Collected_Poems 4.37 67
This volume includes all the poems that Auden wished to preserve, in a text that includes his final revisions, with corrections based on the latest research. Auden divided his poems into sections that corresponded to what he referred to as chapters in his life, each one beginning with a change in his inner life or external circumstances: the moment in 1933 when he first knew “exactly what it means to love one’s neighbor as oneself”; his move from Britain to America in 1939; his first summer in Italy in 1948; his move to a summerhouse in Austria in 1958; and his return to England in 1972.

Auden’s work has perhaps the widest range and the greatest depth of any English poet of the past three centuries. From the anxious warnings of his early verse through the expansive historical perspectives of his middle years to the celebrations and thanksgiving in his later work, Auden wrote in a voice that addressed readers personally rather than as part of a collective audience. His styles and forms extend from ballads and songs to haiku and limericks to sonnets, sestinas, prose poems, and dozens of other constructions of his own invention. His tone ranges from spirited comedy to memorable profundity–often within the same work. His poems manage to be secular and sacred, philosophical and erotic, personal and universal.

“All the poems I have written were written for love,” Auden once said. This book includes his famous early poems about transient love (“Lay your sleeping head, my love,” “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone”) and his later poems about enduring love (“In Sickness and in Health,” “First Things First”). The book also includes Auden’s longer, more thematically varied poems, from the expressionist charade “Paid on Both Sides” to the formal couplets of “New Year Letter”; the darkly comic sequel to The Tempest, “The Sea and the Mirror”; and a baroque eclogue set in a wartime bar, “The Age of Anxiety.”

This new edition includes a critical appreciation of Auden by Edward Mendelson, the editor of the present volume and Auden’s literary executor.

“W. H. Auden had the greatest gifts of any of our poets in the twentieth century, the greatest lap full of seed.”
–James Fenton, The New York Review of Books

“At the beginning of the new century, [Auden] is an indispensable poet. Even people who don’t read poems often turn to poetry at moments when it matters, and Auden matters now.”
–Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker]]> 1976 0 0 false Sun Oct 19 17:57:21 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 08 10:24:01 -0700 2009 51802997 289271 321538 0679731970 9780679731979 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427m/321538.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427s/321538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321538.Collected_Poems_Auden 4.38 409
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.]]> 1976 5 0 false Tue Apr 07 08:01:55 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 09:39:13 -0700 2009 the New York Times about memorizing poetry so I have been memorizing "This Lunar Beauty".]]> 12064041 355933 321538 0679731970 9780679731979 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427m/321538.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427s/321538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321538.Collected_Poems_Auden 4.38 409
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.]]> 1976 3 0 false Fri May 30 06:50:27 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 09 09:10:38 -0800 2008 Fri May 30 06:50:27 -0700 2008 8137282 32123 152530 0679643508 9780679643500 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172244317m/152530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172244317s/152530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/152530.Collected_Poems 4.38 409
This volume includes all the poems that Auden wished to preserve, in a text that includes his final revisions, with corrections based on the latest research. Auden divided his poems into sections that corresponded to what he referred to as chapters in his life, each one beginning with a change in his inner life or external circumstances: the moment in 1933 when he first knew “exactly what it means to love one’s neighbor as oneself”; his move from Britain to America in 1939; his first summer in Italy in 1948; his move to a summerhouse in Austria in 1958; and his return to England in 1972.

Auden’s work has perhaps the widest range and the greatest depth of any English poet of the past three centuries. From the anxious warnings of his early verse through the expansive historical perspectives of his middle years to the celebrations and thanksgiving in his later work, Auden wrote in a voice that addressed readers personally rather than as part of a collective audience. His styles and forms extend from ballads and songs to haiku and limericks to sonnets, sestinas, prose poems, and dozens of other constructions of his own invention. His tone ranges from spirited comedy to memorable profundity–often within the same work. His poems manage to be secular and sacred, philosophical and erotic, personal and universal.

“All the poems I have written were written for love,” Auden once said. This book includes his famous early poems about transient love (“Lay your sleeping head, my love,” “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone”) and his later poems about enduring love (“In Sickness and in Health,” “First Things First”). The book also includes Auden’s longer, more thematically varied poems, from the expressionist charade “Paid on Both Sides” to the formal couplets of “New Year Letter”; the darkly comic sequel to The Tempest, “The Sea and the Mirror”; and a baroque eclogue set in a wartime bar, “The Age of Anxiety.”

This new edition includes a critical appreciation of Auden by Edward Mendelson, the editor of the present volume and Auden’s literary executor.

“W. H. Auden had the greatest gifts of any of our poets in the twentieth century, the greatest lap full of seed.”
–James Fenton, The New York Review of Books

“At the beginning of the new century, [Auden] is an indispensable poet. Even people who don’t read poems often turn to poetry at moments when it matters, and Auden matters now.”
–Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker]]> 1976 0 0 false Tue Oct 23 12:04:02 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 12:04:35 -0700 2007 37054869 1690493 321538 0679731970 9780679731979 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427m/321538.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427s/321538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321538.Collected_Poems_Auden 4.38 409
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.]]> 1976 5 0 false Thu Nov 06 13:25:08 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 06 13:26:06 -0800 2008 9179926 623528 20705 0571142265 9780571142262 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298634m/20705.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298634s/20705.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20705.W_H_Auden_Collected_Poems 4.31 13
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.]]> 1976 4 0 false Thu Nov 15 21:04:18 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 15 21:04:18 -0800 2007 49833490 1496785 321538 0679731970 9780679731979 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427m/321538.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743427s/321538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321538.Collected_Poems_Auden 4.38 409
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.]]> 1976 5 0 false Fri Jun 05 13:14:07 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 20:28:27 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 13:14:07 -0700 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=321538