Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957, Paperback - W. H. Auden

Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with ...

Reducere. To commemorate the centennial of W. H. Auden's birth, the Modern Library offers this elegant edition of the collected poems of one of the greatest ...

Includes such poetic works as: "Paid on Both Sides", "Letter to Lord Byron", "For the Time Being", "The Sea and the Mirror", and "The Age of Anxiety".

When The Orators was originally published in 1932 it was described by Poetry Review as 'something as important as the appearance of Mr Eliot's poem...

Auden's electrifying, enigmatic and extraordinarily influential debut collection was published by Faber in 1930, and simply entitled Poems. For the...

Some of his most famous and often quoted (or misquoted) lines appear in their original form, including the text of two poems in particular - 'Spain...

In the early 1950s the author began planning a prose volume that would bring together some of his published essays, lectures, and reviews, together...

Reducere. Here, from one of our major poets, is the collected early work that has been long unavailable in this country. Included in this volume is the work ...

Reducere. Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, ``The Sea and the Mirror`` is not merely a great poem but ranks as one ...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the pastPublisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): W.H. AudenNumber of pages: 112Publi...

Auden's formal and intellectual range challenges comparison with Eliot or Yeats, and his particular interests - psychological, anthropological, pro...

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume represents, under one cover, the major work of the man whom critics and readers have designated the authentic poet of his Am...

Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): W.H. AudenNumber of pages: 960Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 215 x 137 x 50Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Patrick KavanaghHis is a unique voice in modern lyrical poetry--ferociously independent, by turns ironic, colloquial, lyrical.

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Alexander McCall SmithNumber of pages: 152Collection: Writers on WritersPublication date: 2022Dimen...

Reducere. From the quiet beauty of 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' to the apocalyptic resonance of 'The Second Coming', this collection shows the impact of a gr...

Literary Nonfiction. Jewish Studies. THE BUTTON THIEF OF EAST 14TH STREET: SCENES FROM A LIFE ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE 1927-1957 is Fay Webern's mast...

Introduction to the life and work of the great Dane, the father of existentialism and Christian philosopher whose influence on thought is as strong...

This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary...

Reducere. "These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page." Adrienne Rich "The first declaration of a black, lesbian feminist identity took place in these...

Reducere. From their first publication, when Rich was twenty-one, in the prestigious Yale Younger Poets series, the successive volumes of her poetry have bot...

Reducere. Of special significance are the ``Uncollected and Unpublished Poems (1912-1944), `` the third section of the book, written mainly in the 1930s, dur...

Graham has given us a poetry of intense power and inquisitive vision - a body of work regarded by many as among the best Romantic poetry of the twe...

Reducere. Award NameLambda Literary AwardsAward categoryLesbian PoetryDescriptionfrom "The Cockfighter's Daughter"I found my father, face down, in his homema...

Reducere. In these glimmering and lyrical translations, with an introduction and scholarly endnotes cowritten with Willis Barnstone, Aliki Barnstone has been...

Reducere. Agha Shahid Ali died in 2001, mourned by myriad lovers of poetry and devoted students. This volume, his shining legacy, moves from playful early po...

Reducere. DescriptionRichard Hugo was, in James Wright s words, a great poet, true to our difficult life. Making Certain It Goes On brings together, as Hugo ...

Reducere. An extraordinary culmination for Robert Bly's lifelong intellectual adventure, Collected Poems presents the full magnitude of his body of work for ...

Considered a classic at the time of its publication in 1910, A Shepherd's Life is a rare account of the lives of those who lived on and worked the ...

A moving and revealing memoir of real life at the turn of the century, Young Emma is W. H. Davies's frank and honest account of the relationship wi...

Reducere. "It will seem increasingly to many attentive readers that this volume the most distinguished book of American verse, in my judgment, since the publ...