Edward Mendelson has significantly expanded his authoritative, chronological ordered edition of Auden's Selected Poems (first published in 1979), adding twenty items to the hundred in the original edition, and broadening the focus to reflect the wealth of forms, the rhetorical and tonal range, and the variousness of content in Auden's poetry, in the confines of one volume. In particular, there are newly included examples of Auden's mastery of light verse: the self-descriptive sequence of haiku called 'Profiles', the barbed wartime quatrains of 'Leap Before You Look', or 'Funeral Blues' itself. Also included are brief notes explaining references that may have become obscure, and a revised introduction drawing on recent additions to Auden scholarship.

W. H. Auden, Selected Poems: '[He] has made himself into a kind of unofficial poet laureate. If I am bombed I hope he will write a few sapphics about me.' Stephen Spender, 1941

About the Author
Edward Mendelson is the literary executor of the Estate of W.H. Auden and the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His books include Early Auden, Later Auden and The Things That Matter. His edition of W.H. Auden's Prose (Volume III, 1949-1955) was published by Faber in 2008.


Book Information
ISBN 9780571241538
Author W.H. Auden
Format Paperback
Page Count 376
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 420g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 130mm * 27mm