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Wystan H. Auden

  • W. H. Auden
21. február 1907 – 29. september 1973
Wystan H. Auden
The Dyer's Hand
The Enchafèd Flood
Collected Auden
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume II
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume I
The English Auden
  • The Enchafèd Flood

    Three Critical Essays on the Romantic Spirit

    • 194 stránok
    • 7 hodin čítania

    The exploration of Romanticism is examined through the theme of the sea, with a particular focus on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Auden employs a Christian existentialist perspective to analyze the tendency of Romantic writers to escape from responsibility and community. Drawing from diverse sources, including the Bible and Baudelaire, the work delves into the complexities of human nature and the philosophical implications of seeking freedom in isolation.

    The Enchafèd Flood2024
    5,0
  • The Shield of Achilles is a poem by W. H. Auden first published in 1952, and the title work of a collection of poems by Auden, published in 1955. It is Auden's response to the detailed description, or ekphrasis, of the shield borne by the hero Achilles in Homer's epic poem the Iliad.The poem is the title work of The Shield of Achilles, a collection of poems in three parts, published in 1955, containing Auden's poems written from around 1951 through 1954. It begins with the sequence "Bucolics", then miscellaneous poems under the heading "In Sunshine and In Shade", then the sequence Horae Canonicae.It won the U.S. National Book Award for Poetry in 1956.

    The Shield of Achilles2024
    4,3
  • The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume I

    1927-1939

    • 848 stránok
    • 30 hodin čítania

    W. H. Auden's poetry is explored in this comprehensive first complete edition, featuring both published and previously unpublished works. Edited by Edward Mendelson, this volume spans Auden's early career from 1927 to 1939, showcasing his development as a poet. It includes juvenilia, unpublished poems, and song lyrics intended for Benjamin Britten. The text presents original versions alongside detailed annotations that highlight Auden's revisions and clarify obscure references, offering a deep insight into his artistic evolution.

    The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume I2022
    4,8
  • The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume II

    1940-1973

    • 1120 stránok
    • 40 hodin čítania

    The second volume of this complete edition showcases W. H. Auden's poetic evolution from 1940 until his passing in 1973. It features all his published works from this period, including collections like The Double Man and Epistle to a Godson, alongside previously unpublished poems and songs. Edited by Edward Mendelson, the volume offers original texts, revised versions, and annotations that clarify obscure references, providing a comprehensive view of Auden as a mature artist. It also includes an edited version of his incomplete work, Thank You, Fog.

    The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume II2022
    5,0
  • Another Time

    • 128 stránok
    • 5 hodin čítania

    Some of his most famous and often quoted (or misquoted) lines appear in their original form, including the text of two poems in particular - 'Spain 1937' and 'September 1,1939' - that he later altered or repudiated. This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.

    Another Time2007
    4,2
  • Le fantôme de Brillat-Savarin

    • 303 stránok
    • 11 hodin čítania

    Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (1908-1992) est l'auteur de Biographie sentimentale de l'huître, L'Élixir d'amour, Le Petit Chien d'Aix-en-Provence, Une mariée à Dijon, Un loup au dîner, tous publiés dans la collection "Anatolia". Du même auteur paraît simultanément Mes belles années d'avant-guerre, dans la même collection. Aimée et admirée pour son originalité et pour sa fantaisie autant que pour son intelligence et son style, le poète W H. Auden n'hésita pas à la reconnaître, dès ses débuts, comme "la plus grande styliste de langue anglaise". Elle fut aussi la traductrice en anglais de la Physiologie du goût, de Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Son œuvre complète est en cours de traduction.

    Le fantôme de Brillat-Savarin2006
  • Collected Auden

    • 960 stránok
    • 34 hodin čítania

    This collection presents all the poems W.H. Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. Together, these works display the range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, and his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited

    Collected Auden2004
    4,4
  • A Tolkien Treasury

    • 128 stránok
    • 5 hodin čítania

    With poems, stories, songs, and so much more, this Running Press Miniature Edition™ is the perfect gift for every Tolkien fan. Get a glimpse of Middle-earth in this beautifully illustrated celebration of one of the greatest writers of all time-and his epic creations.

    A Tolkien Treasury2001
    3,8
  • Letters from Iceland

    • 312 stránok
    • 11 hodin čítania

    In the summer of 1936, W H Auden and Louis MacNeice visited Iceland on commission to write a travel book, but found themselves capturing concerns on a scale that were far more international. This is a collaboration in poetry and prose, reportage and correspondence, published in 1937 with the Spanish Civil War newly in progress.

    Letters from Iceland1998
    3,8
  • Tell Me the Truth About Love

    Ten Poems

    • 29 stránok
    • 2 hodiny čítania

    Had he been writing now, Auden might have penned a poem titled "Tell me the Truth About Publishing," as this special collection was inspired by the success of the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral, featuring one of his poems. Spanning from October 1932 to June 1948, the poems could have been more revealing if arranged chronologically; however, commercial demands place "Funeral Blues" at the end, while "Lullaby," arguably superior, is tucked inside. This period coincides with Auden's move to America in January 1939, and "Calypso" captures the rhythm of a train taking him to New York. Many poems exude a jolly air and were written as cabaret songs, with "At Last the Secret is Out" being tongue-in-cheek regarding Auden's sexuality, despite the heterosexual cover. This volume serves as a good introduction to Auden's work. "Funeral Blues" expresses disbelief at life continuing after loss, with a flippant yet poignant tone: "Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves." He juxtaposes grandiosity with the mundane, enveloping readers in profound love. "Lullaby" evokes the preciousness of a fleeting night with someone unattainable, leaving much unexplained yet drawing readers back: "Lay your sleeping head, my love, / Human on my faithless arm..." What an astonishing opener.

    Tell Me the Truth About Love1994
    3,9
  • In New York, between 1946 and 1948, the scholar and poet Alan Ansen made rapid notes of Auden's inimitable conversation. This book is a record of Auden's private, offhand and sometimes wayward remarks and opinions about art, literature, music, politics, religion and sexuality.

    The Table Talk of W.H. Auden1991
    4,1
  • Between 1927 and his death in 1973, 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 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.

    Collected Poems of W. H. Auden1991
    4,3
  • The Dyer's Hand

    • 527 stránok
    • 19 hodin čítania

    In this volume, W. H. Auden assembled, edited, and arranged the best of his prose writing, including the famous lectures he delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry. The result is less a formal collection of essays than an extended and linked series of observations—on poetry, art, and the observation of life in general.The Dyer's Hand is a surprisingly personal, intimate view of the author's mind, whose central focus is poetry—Shakespearean poetry in particular—but whose province is the author's whole experience of the twentieth century.

    The Dyer's Hand1989
    4,3
  • The Prolific and the Devourer

    • 93 stránok
    • 4 hodiny čítania

    New Ecco Press,, 1981.. Fine in a near fine dustjacket.. First printing. A book of aphorisms begun by Auden in 1939 - part 1 had originally appeared in Anteus in 1976, but this is the first publication of the entire work. The entire issue is devoted to this and to an index of Anteus, Numbers 1- 42. The uncommon hardcover issue.

    The Prolific and the Devourer1981
    4,0
  • A Certain World

    • 452 stránok
    • 16 hodin čítania

    A Certain World

    A Certain World1971
    1,0
  • The Faber book of aphorisms

    • 416 stránok
    • 15 hodin čítania

    Aphorisms are not witticisms or epigrams, but general truths succinctly stated. This anthology contains 3000 quotations from a wide variety of aphorists ranging from Heraclitus to Ogden Nash, as well as Jane Austen, Pascal, Freud, Goethe, the Duke of Wellington, Shaw, Jean Cocteau and many more.

    The Faber book of aphorisms1970
  • Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with Anglo- Saxon poetry and ending with an Horatian expansiveness and conversational sweep, this volume is essential reading for anyone seriously interested in modern poetry after T.

    Collected Shorter Poems 1927-19571969
    4,2
  • This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden's 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.

    Selected poems1968
    4,2