This book of lively essays examines the life and writing of Auden by considering them in a variety of historical, social, cultural and literary contexts. Written by distinguished scholars and…

Offer readings of Auden’s works and illuminates his use of stylistic registers and poetic genres. This book traces the ideas and ideologies that animated and overwhelmed Auden’s poetry. It considers…

W. H. Auden is perhaps the most important English language poet of the 20th century. He produced marvelous poems-even in his last days.However, critics and reviewers not only have not…

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…

Critical essays illuminate the twentieth-century author’s thoughts on literature, ideals, and creativity.

W.H. Auden and Hannah Arendt belonged to a generation that experienced the catastrophic events of the mid-20th century, and they both sought to respond to the enormity of the novel…

The second of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden’s poems-including some that have never been published before

W. H. Auden (1907-1973) is one of the…

Bringing together the poems written by Auden between the ages of fifteen and twenty-one (1922-1928), this book gives us a detailed look at the literary personality, development, and preoccupations of…