In Edward Mendelson’s edition of the collected poems, a fuller picture of one of the masters of English verse in the 20th century emerges.
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W. H. Auden signs in at Stockholm’s Grand Hôtel in Sweden, April 16, 1964.
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The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume 1: 1927–1939, edited by Edward Mendelson (Princeton University Press, 848 pp., $60)
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume 2: 1940–1973, edited by Edward Mendelson (Princeton University Press, 1,120 pp., $60)
About the Author
Nick Ripatrazone is the culture editor of Image journal and the author, most recently, of The Habit of Poetry: The Literary Lives of Nuns in Mid-century America.
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The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume 1: 1927–1939, edited by Edward Mendelson (Princeton University Press, 848 pp., $60)
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume 2: 1940–1973, edited by Edward Mendelson (Princeton University Press, 1,120 pp., $60)
About the Author
Nick Ripatrazone is the culture editor of Image journal and the author, most recently, of The Habit of Poetry: The Literary Lives of Nuns in Mid-century America.
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