Presents an extensive collection of poems by twentieth-century poet, W.H. Auden. The poems feature a variety of styles and tones and this collection includes Auden's longer, thematically-varied poems as well.
Contains all the known surviving poems written by Auden between March 1922 when he decided to become a poet at the age of fifteen, and October 1928 when he left school.
William Blake; Robert Burns; George Crabbe; Philip Freneau; Fritz-Greene Halleck; Sir Walter Scott; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; William Wordsworth; Hartley Coleridge; William Cullen Bryant; Walter Savage Landor; Thomas Moore; George Gordon, Lord Byron; Percy Bysshe Shelley; George Darley; John Keats; Leigh Hunt; Thomas Hood; Winthrop Mackworth Praed; John Clare; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry David Thoreau; William Barnes; John Greenleaf Whittier; Jones Very; Thomas Lovell Beddoes; Edgar Allan Poe.
A book-length poem in which W.H. Auden analyzes Western culture after World War II. Includes a critical examination of the work and its meaning and significance in the modern world.
Contains all of W.H. Auden's essays and reviews that he wrote between 1926 and 1938 while living in England. Also includes the full original version of his two travel books "Letters from Iceland" and "Journey to a War.".