{"title":"W. H. Auden","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-age-of-anxiety-by-w-h-auden-9780691138152","title":"The Age of Anxiety","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen it was first published in 1947, \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Anxiety\u003c\/em\u003e—W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem—immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and named.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning as a conversation among four strangers in a barroom on New York's Third Avenue, Auden's analysis of Western culture during the Second World War won the Pulitzer Prize and inspired a symphony by Leonard Bernstein as well as a ballet by Jerome Robbins. Yet reviews of the poem were sharply divided, and today, despite its continuing fame, it is unjustly neglected by readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume—the first annotated, critical edition of the poem—introduces this important work to a new generation of readers by putting it in historical and biographical context and elucidating its difficulties. Alan Jacobs's introduction and thorough annotations help today's readers understand and appreciate the full richness of a poem that contains some of Auden's most powerful and beautiful verse, and that still deserves a central place in the canon of twentieth-century poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471710568684,"sku":"9780691138152","price":63.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691138152-the-age-of-anxiety.jpg?v=1775250096"},{"product_id":"the-complete-works-of-w-h-auden-poems-volume-i-by-w-h-auden-9780691219295","title":"The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume I","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden's poems—including some that have never been published before\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe second volume of this edition, \u003cem\u003ePoems, Volume 2: 1940-1973\u003c\/em\u003e, is also available.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47559027228908,"sku":"9780691219295","price":125.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691219295-the-complete-works-of-w-h-auden-poems-volume-i.jpg?v=1776927272"},{"product_id":"juvenilia-by-w-h-auden-9780691102818","title":"Juvenilia","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou know the terror that for poets lurks Beyond the ferry when to Minos brought. Poets must utter their Collected Works, Including \u003cem\u003eJuvenilia\u003c\/em\u003e... —from \"Letter to Lord Byron\" (1936)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRegardless of how poets feel about their youthful attempts at verse, their early poems not only enrich our understanding of their artistic growth, but also reveal much about the nature of literary genius. No other twentieth-century poet has left behind such a wealth of early poetry as did W. H. Auden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy bringing together for the first time all the poems written by Auden between the ages of fifteen and twenty-one (1922-1928), this book allows us a rare, detailed look at the literary personality, development, and preoccupations of a major poet. Auden's readers will be fascinated to find in these poems the earliest evidence of his interest in psychoanalysis, his conflicted attitude toward his homosexuality, his self-conscious approach to poetry, and his life-long journey toward a religious sense of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection includes over two hundred poems, most of them never published before, concluding with the contents of Auden's privately printed volume, \u003cem\u003ePoems\u003c\/em\u003e (1928). The poems are generously annotated with information on Auden's education, reading, literary concerns, and personal life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn her introduction, Katherine Bucknell traces important themes relating to the poet's entire career, and describes crucial but hitherto unknown aspects of his youth during his years at Gresham's School and at Christ Church, Oxford. Throughout this work we see in Auden an admirable instinct for experiment, a thorough testing of tradition, and a gathering mastery of technique and thematic argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596718555372,"sku":"9780691102818","price":84.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691102818-juvenilia.jpg?v=1777938278"},{"product_id":"the-complete-works-of-w-h-auden-poems-volume-ii-by-w-h-auden-9780691219301","title":"The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume II","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe second of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden's poems—including some that have never been published before.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. 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 second volume 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume follows Auden as a mature artist, containing all the poems that he published or submitted for publication from 1940 until his death in 1973, at age sixty-six. This includes all his poetry collections from this period, from \u003ci\u003eThe Double Man\u003c\/i\u003e (1941) through \u003ci\u003eEpistle to a Godson\u003c\/i\u003e (1972). The volume also features an edited version of his incomplete, posthumous book \u003ci\u003eThank You, Fog\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as his self-designated \"posthumous\" poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe main text presents the poems in their original published versions. 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