This book includes his famous early poems about transient love ("Lay your sleeping head, my love, "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone) and his later poems about enduring love ("In Sickness and in Health, "First Things First). "All the poems I have written were written for love, Auden once said. His poems manage to be secular and sacred, philosophical and erotic, personal and universal. His tone ranges from spirited comedy to memorable profundity-often within the same work. His styles and forms extend from ballads and songs to haiku and limericks to sonnets, sestinas, prose poems, and dozens of other constructions of his own invention. From the anxious warnings of his early verse through the expansive historical perspectives of his middle years to the celebrations and thanksgiving in his later work, Auden wrote in a voice that addressed readers personally rather than as part of a collective audience. Auden's work has perhaps the widest range and the greatest depth of any English poet of the past three centuries. Auden divided his poems into sections that corresponded to what he referred to as chapters in his life, each one beginning with a change in his inner life or external circumstances: the moment in 1933 when he first knew "exactly what it means to love one's neighbor as oneself his move from Britain to America in 1939 his first summer in Italy in 1948 his move to a summerhouse in Austria in 1958 and his return to England in 1972. This volume includes all the poems that Auden wished to preserve, in a text that includes his final revisions, with corrections based on the latest research. Auden's birth, the Modern Library offers this elegant edition of the collected poems of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Klappentext To commemorate the centennial of W. In 1972 Auden left his winter home in New York and returned to Oxford. In collaboration with his companion Chester Kallman, he composed opera libretti for Igor Stravinsky, Hans Werner Henze, and Nicholas Nabokov. In 1939 he settled in New York and became an American citizen in 1946. He collaborated on three plays with Christopher Isherwood and wrote books about his travels to Iceland (with Louis MacNeice) and wartime China (with Christopher Isherwood). His first book of poems was published in 1930, followed by a dozen volumes of shorter and longer poems. Auden was born in York, England, in 1907.
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