Poems (1930)

Author: W. H. Auden

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  • : $24.99 AUD
  • : 9780571283514
  • : Faber & Faber
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  • : December 2012
  • : 198mm X 126mm
  • : United Kingdom
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Barcode 9780571283514
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Description

Auden's electrifying, enigmatic and extraordinarily influential debut collection was published by Faber in 1930, and simply entitled Poems. For the second edition (1933) he omitted seven items and added new poems in their place. Available again for the first time since 1950, this reissue follows the text of the second edition.

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W. H. Auden's debut poetry collection, available for the first time since 1950 in this glorious reissue.

Author description

W. H. Auden was born in 1907. His first book, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber in 1930. He went to Spain during the civil war, to Iceland (with Louis MacNeice) and later traveled to China. In 1939 he and Christopher Isherwood left for America, where Auden spent the next fifteen years lecturing, reviewing, writing poetry and opera librettos, and editing anthologies. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. In 1956 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and a year later went to live in Kirchstetten in Austria, after spending several summers on Ischia. He died in Vienna in 1973.