Auden: Poems: Edited by Edward Mendelson - Hardcover
by W. H. Auden
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Availability:In StockContributor:W. H. Auden, Edward MendelsonSeries:Everyman's Library Pocket PoetsPublish date:1995-05-10Pages:256
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Everyman's LibraryISBN-13:9780679443674ISBN-10:679443673UPC:9780679443674Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:6.62 x 4.36 x 0.71 inchesWeight:0.5Product ID:SC39G91WXZ
Presented here in a fine hardcover edition, Poems: Auden is a is a reminder of W. H. Auden's exhilarating lyric power and his understanding of love and longing in all their sacred and profane guises.
Witty, urbane, civil, and worldly, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from the mandarin to the invigoratingly plain-spoken.
This representative collection displays 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. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a jewel-toned jacket.
Witty, urbane, civil, and worldly, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from the mandarin to the invigoratingly plain-spoken.
This representative collection displays 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. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a jewel-toned jacket.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Everyman's LibraryISBN-13:9780679443674ISBN-10:679443673UPC:9780679443674Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:6.62 x 4.36 x 0.71 inchesWeight:0.5Product ID:SC39G91WXZ
W. H. AUDEN (1907-1973) was one of the wittiest and most worldly of English poetry's great twentieth century masters. His work ranges from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the romantic. He is also, with his exhilarating lyrical power and his understanding of love and longing in all their sacred and profane guises, an exemplary champion of human wisdom in its encounter with the mysteries of experience. More than any other poet, Auden used his poetry as an instrument to study the massive forces, dramas, and upheavals of the twentieth century, and his work displays an astonishing range of voice and breath of concern. EDWARD MENDELSON is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the literary executor of W. H. Auden's estate and the editor of Auden's complete works. Among his previous books are Early Auden, Later Auden, and editions of novels by Anthony Trollope, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, and Arnold Bennett. He lives in New York City with his wife and son.
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