W.H. Auden

by Fuller, John

• ISBN13: 9780691004198
• ISBN10: 0691004196
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

"Fuller's book is a deeply impressive and valuable achievement that has no real equal in the critical literature on any modern poet. It explains thousands of allusions in all of Auden's plays and poems--and covers virtually all of Auden's published work, not only the poems that he collected. But it is not simply the work of a source-hunter. It is the work of a scholar and successful poet, who can write illuminatingly about verse form and poetic tone as well as about sources and influences. In almost every case, Fuller makes the poems he writes about more enjoyable to read, not merely more comprehensible. It is an astonishingly full guide to reading and research that will remain the main reference work on Auden for many decades."--Edward Mendelson, Editor of "The Complete Works of W. H. Auden" (Princeton)

Author Biography

John Fuller is a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he teaches English. He is also a poet and novelist. His collection Stones and Fires won the 1996 Forward Prize

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Acknowledgements	xi
Abbreviations	xiii
Poems (1928)	3	(15)
Paid on Both Sides	18	(18)
Uncollected Poems 1925--30	36	(16)
Poems (1930)	52	(26)
Poems (1933)	78	(7)
The Orators	85	(38)
The Dance of Death	123	(3)
The Dog Beneath the Skin	126	(19)
Look, Stranger!	145	(33)
Uncollected Poems 1930--36	178	(15)
The Ascent of F6	193	(9)
Letters from Iceland	202	(23)
Alfred	225	(2)
Hadrian's Wall	227	(3)
Journey to a War	230	(15)
On the Frontier	245	(4)
Another Time	249	(47)
Uncollected Poems 1937--39	296	(9)
The Dark Valley	305	(3)
Paul Bunyan	308	(11)
The Double Man	319	(26)
For the Time Being	345	(11)
The Sea and the Mirror	356	(13)
The Age of Anxiety	369	(19)
Poems first published in the Collected Poetry (1945)	388	(17)
Nones	405	(26)
Uncollected Poems 1940--48	431	(5)
The Rake's Progress	436	(4)
Delia	440	(3)
The Shield of Achilles	443	(20)
Homage to Clio	463	(18)
Elegy for Young Lovers	481	(3)
About the House	484	(20)
The Bassarids	504	(4)
City Without Walls	508	(19)
Academic Graffiti	527	(2)
Epistle to a Godson	529	(15)
Thank You, Fog	544	(10)
Uncollected Poems 1949--73	554	(4)
Index of Titles and First Lines	558	(17)
General Index	575