Selected Poems

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by W.H. Auden

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I don't have this book, so can anyone please tell me the date of the poem "Archaeology?" Thank you.
Robin Helweg-Larsen can anyone please tell me the date of the poem "Archaeology?"
............. August 1973…morecan anyone please tell me the date of the poem "Archaeology?"
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Could anyone tell me if this collection contains "Hunting Season"? I need to use for an essay I have coming up and cannot find this particular poem anywhere on the internet. This collection is available to download as a PDF but just states that there are over 100 poems... Any help appreciated :)
Dennis McNulty No, this collection does not contain "Hunting Season", which instead can be found in the '1948-1957' section of 'Collected Poems' Faber & Faber.

As for…moreNo, this collection does not contain "Hunting Season", which instead can be found in the '1948-1957' section of 'Collected Poems' Faber & Faber.

As for John Fuller's selection, the contents are as follows:

1927 'The Watershed'
1928 'The Secret Agent'
1928 'Taller To-Day'
1929 'Shut Your Eyes and Open Your Mouth'
1930 'This Lunar Beauty'
1931 'Argument Part iii' and 'Epilogue' from "The Orators"
1932-3 'Getting Dressed' from "In the year of my youth" (1978)
1932 'O What is That Sound'
1933 'A Summer Night'
1934 'May (with its light beaving')
1935 'The Cultural Presupposition from "The Dog Under The Skin"
1935 'On This Island'
1936 'Funeral Blues'/'Stop All The Clocks' & 'Fish in an unruffled lake' from "Twelve Songs"
1936 'Detective Story'
1937 'Spain 1937'
1938 'The Sphinx' from "A Voyage"
1938 'Here war is simple like a monument' from "In Time of War"
1938 'Musee des Beaux Arts'
1938 'Gare du Midi'
1939 'Refugee Blues'/'Say this city' & 'Carry her over the water' from "Ten Songs"
1939 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats'
1939 'Epitaph on a Tyrant'
1940 'England to me is my own tongue' from "New Year Letter"
1940 'If I Could Tell You'
1941 'Atlantis'
1942 'The Lesson'
1943 'Miranda's Song' from "The Sea and the Mirror"
1944-6 'As yet the young hero's' & 'Prospector's Ballad' from "The Age of Anxiety"
1947 'The Fall of Rome'
1948 'In Praise of Limestone'
1949 'Cattivo Tempo'
1950 'Their Lonely Betters'
1951 'Fleet Visit'
1952 'Lauds' from "Horae Canonicae"
1953 'Streams' from "Bucolics"
1954 'A Permanent Way'
1955 'The Old Man's Road'
1956 'There Will Be No Peace'
1957 'Limbo Culture'
1958 'Walks'
1959 'Dame Kind'
1960 'You'
1961 'A Change of Air'
1962 'The Birth of Architecture' from "Thanksgiving for a Habitat"
1963 'Recitative by Death' from "Two 'Don Quixote' Lyrics"
1964 'Et in Arcadia Ego'
1965 'Since'
1966 'River Profile'
1967 'A Mosaic for Marianne Moore' from "Eleven Occasional Poems"
1968 'August 1968'
1969 'Pseudo-questions'
1970 'The Aliens'
1971 'Short Ode to the Cuckoo'
1972 'Aubade'
1973 'Address to the Beasts'
1973 'No, Plato, No'





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