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Selected poems / W.H. Auden ; edited by Edward Mendelson.

Author/creator Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973
Other author/creatorMendelson, Edward editor.
Format Book and Print
EditionExpanded ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Vintage International, 2007.
Descriptionxxx, 344 pages ; 21 cm
Subject(s)
Uniform titlePoems. Selections
Contents Who stands, the crux left of the watershed -- From the very first coming down -- Control of the passes was, he saw, the key -- Taller to-day, we remember similar evenings -- Watch any day his nonchalant pauses, see -- Will you turn a deaf ear -- Sir, no man's enemy, forgiving all -- It was Easter as I walked in the public gardens -- Since you are going to begin to-day -- Consider this and in our time -- This lunar beauty -- To ask the hard question is simple -- Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle -- What's in your mind, my dove, my coney -- "O where are you going?" said reader to rider -- Though aware of our rank and alert to obey orders -- O Love, the interest itself in thoughtless Heaven -- O what is that sound which so thrills the ear -- Hearing of harvests rotting in the valleys -- Out on the lawn I lie in bed -- A shilling life will give you all the facts -- Our hunting fathers told the story -- Easily, my dear, you move, easily your head -- The Summer holds: upon its glittering lake -- Now through night's caressing grip -- O for doors to be open and an invite with gilded edges -- Look, stranger, at this island now -- Now the leaves are falling fast -- Underneath the abject willow -- Dear, though the night is gone -- Fish in the unruffled lakes -- Casino -- Funeral Blues -- Journey to Iceland -- "O who can ever gaze his fill" -- Lay your sleeping head, my love -- Spain -- Johnny -- Orpheus -- Miss Gee -- Wrapped in a yielding air, beside -- Dover -- As I walked out one evening -- Oxford -- O tell me the truth about love -- In time of war -- The Capital -- Musee des Beaux Arts -- Epitaph on a tyrant -- In memory of W.B. Yeats -- Refugee blues -- The unknown citizen -- Calypso -- September 1, 1939 -- Law, say the gardeners, is the sun -- In memory of Sigmund Freud -- Eyes look into the well -- Lady, weeping at the crossroads -- Song for St. Cecilia's Day -- The quest -- But I can't -- In sickness and in health -- Leap before you look -- Jumbled in the common box -- Atlantis -- At the grave of Henry James -- Mundus et Infans -- The lesson -- The sea and the mirror -- Noon -- Lament for a lawgiver -- Under which lyre -- The fall of Rome -- In praise of limestone -- A household -- Song -- A walk after dark -- Memorial for the city -- Under Sirius -- Their lonely betters -- Nocturne I -- Fleet visit -- The shield of Achilles -- The willow-wren and the stare -- Epitaph for the Unknown Soldier -- Nocturne II -- Bucolics -- Horae Canonicae -- Homage to Clio -- The Old Man's Road -- The song -- First things first -- The more loving one -- Friday's child -- Good-bye to the Mezzogiorno -- Dame kind -- You -- A change for air -- After reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics -- On the circuit -- Et in Arcadia Ego -- Thanksgiving for a Habitat -- Epithalamium -- Amor Loci -- Profile -- Fairground -- River profile -- Prologue at sixty -- Forty years on -- Ode to Terminus -- August 1968 -- A New Year greeting -- Moon landing -- Old People's Home -- Talking to myself -- A shock -- A lullaby -- Aubade -- A Thanksgiving -- Archaeology.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 2007540115
ISBN9780307278081 (pbk.)
ISBN0307278085 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks PS3501.U55 A17 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold