Selected Poems

Type

Book

Authors

W. H. Auden

ISBN 10

0571113966

ISBN 13

9780571113965

Tags

British & Irish, Reference

Description

For many years there existed a general feeling that the selection made by Auden himself in 1968 was far from satisfactory. It was too short to provide a full introduction to such a large body of work; perhaps it was too weighted in favour of the later poetry; at the time it was made some famous poems, or portions of poems were still under an embargo imposed by Auden himself which remained in force until his death. This edition contains an introduction which is an examination of the nature of Auden's genius and of his position and stature in 20th-century literature. - from Amzon

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