No major writer’s complete works are more fun to read. Here, too, are effective boosts for European and British prose (George Macdonald, Giovanni Verga) venturesome (only occasionally repetitive) generalizations about writing and reading poetry comments on America in general (“a nation of amateurs”) and even an enthusiastic plan for a Yorkshire holiday. Here are the influential reviews of Tolkien and the introductions to first books by Adrienne Rich and John Ashbery. Here is the ambitious set of lectures published as The Enchaféd Flood, about the Romantic hero and the sea, in Melville, Baudelaire and (taken with entire seriousness) Edward Lear. This third volume of his complete prose is the best yet: it covers years when he felt almost at home in America, writing comfortably and frequently for the New York Times, Partisan Review and other venues both middle- and high-brow, and branching away from the inward concerns of theology toward reviews and analyses of music and imaginative literature. Poems of Resistance, Poems of Hope $6.If Auden (1907–1973) had never written a line of verse, we would still remember him as a superb, entertaining, prolific critic, author of essays, reviews, whole books and stand-alone witticisms on poetry, fiction, Christian belief and history, classical music and opera.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.Īs 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. 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. Auden: Poems, Volume I: 19271939, edited by Edward Mendelson.

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. This significantly expanded edition of W. Auden, selected and edited by Edward Mendelson The American 'With the publication of Auden’s Complete Poems, no one interested in twentieth-century poetry can fail to see that we owe Edward Mendelson an immeasurable debt.' -Mary Jo Salter, Literary Matters 'Edward Mendelson’s two-volume collection of Auden’s poems, spanning 1927 to 1973, is a welcome arrival, compiled by sage.

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