Wystan Hugh Auden

This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden’s Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, tone, and content in Auden’s work. Newly included are such favorites as “Funeral Blues” and other works that …

"I temi di queste poesie sono l'amore e la disonestà, i due poli tra i quali ci siamo trovati a soggiornare nel nostro secolo, pronti a gloriarci della loro occasionale divergenza ma bravissimi, anche quando siamo sfortunati, a conciliarli fra loro, a fonderli insieme. Ci sono buone ragioni se i versi del poeta …

The Dyer's Hand and other essays is a prose book by W. H. Auden, published in 1962. The book contains a selection of essays, reviews, and collections of aphorisms and notes written by Auden from the early 1950s to 1962. Many items were not previously published, but others appear in revised forms. Many of the essays …