The first 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 greatest
poets of the twentieth century, and his reputation has only grown
since his death. Published on the hundredth anniversary of the year
in which he began to write poetry, this is the first of two volumes
of the first complete edition of Auden's poems. Edited, introduced,
and annotated by renowned Auden scholar Edward Mendelson, this
definitive edition includes all the poems Auden wrote for
publication, in their original texts, and all his later revised
versions, as well as poems and songs he never published, some of
them printed here for the first time. This volume traces the
development of Auden's early career, and contains all the poems,
including juvenilia, that he published or submitted for
publication, from his first printed work, in 1927, at age twenty,
through the poems he wrote during his first months in America, in
1939, when he was thirty-two. The book also includes poems that
Auden wrote during his adult career with the expectation that he
might publish them, but which he never did; song lyrics that he
wrote to be set to music by Benjamin Britten, but which he never
put into print; and verses that he wrote for magazines at schools
where he was teaching. The main text presents the poems in their
original published versions. The notes include the extensive
revisions that he made to his poems over the course of his career,
and provide explanations of obscure references. The second volume
of this edition, Poems, Volume 2: 1940-1973, is also available.
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