Edifying.' -James Matthew Wilson, National Review 'To read Auden's Complete Works therefore is not just to encounter the inventions of a polymathic, often ingenious writer and poet, but to enter into a 'whole climate of opinion,' to explore an age by way of one of its representative figures. An amazing thicket of scholarship and commentary draped around some of the most-studied and most-quoted poetry of the 20th century.' -Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Review Mendelson's Auden has long been regarded as a monument of literary scholarship, and these two heavy poetry volumes complete the grounds for that acclaim. these two books are a monument to the acumen, scholarship, and perseverance of Edward Mendelson.' -Ron Horning, Brooklyn Rail some of the most vivid poems ever committed to English.

I have been reading and teaching and writing about Auden's poetry for many years, but I have taken the opportunity offered by these two volumes to try, as best I can, to encounter it all anew.' -Alan Jacobs, Harper's Magazine He has not achieved this through polemic, but rather through a patient and careful effort. 'Mendelson has championed a reassessment of the poet's later work. 'A dazzling, scholarly triumph.' -Michael Dirda, Washington Post

'A Daily Telegraph Best Poetry Book of the Year' 'A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year' Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 9780691219301 Number of pages: 1120 Dimensions: 235 x 156 mm MEDIA REVIEWS The first volume of this edition, Poems, Volume I: 1927-1939, is also available. The notes include the extensive revisions that he made to his poems over the course of his career, and provide explanations of obscure references. The main text presents the poems in their original published versions. The volume also features an edited version of his incomplete, posthumous book Thank You, Fog, as well as his self-designated 'posthumous' poems. This includes all his poetry collections from this period, from The Double Man (1941) through Epistle to a Godson (1972).

This volume follows Auden as a mature artist, containing all the poems that he published or submitted for publication from 1940 until his death in 1973, at age sixty-six. Edited, introduced, and annotated by renowned Auden scholar Edward Mendelson, this definitive edition includes all the poems Auden wrote for publication, in their original texts, and all his later revised versions, as well as poems and songs he never published, some of them printed here for the first time. Published on the hundredth anniversary of the year in which he began to write poetry, this is the second volume of the first complete edition of Auden's poems. Auden (1907-1973) is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his reputation has only grown since his death. The second of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden's poems-including some that have never been published before

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