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.
Edward Mendelson Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)
Edward Mendelson ist ein herausragender Gelehrter, der sich dem Werk von W. H. Auden widmet und als literarischer Nachlassverwalter von Audens Schriften fungiert. Als Professor für englische und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft taucht seine wissenschaftliche Arbeit tief in Audens Lyrik und Prosa ein und bietet aufschlussreiche Interpretationen. Mendelsons kritische Arbeiten zielen darauf ab, die Komplexität und die anhaltende Bedeutung von Audens literarischem Erbe zu beleuchten. Durch seine Schriften führt er die Leser in den Reichtum und die Tiefe von Audens unverwechselbarer Stimme ein.
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.