Selected Poems by W.H. Auden John Greening and a revised introduction drawing

and a revised introduction drawing on recent additions to Auden scholarship

heart-aches and hair-cuts

earning him a place high on the American Parnassus

it is a book that offers an insistent performance of poetic dialogue with the visual

His books of poems

Selected Poems by W.H. Auden John Greening and a revised introduction drawingEdward Mendelson has significantly expanded his authoritative, chronological ordered edition of Auden's Selected Poems (first published in 1979), adding twenty items to the hundred in the original edition, and broadening the focus to reflect the wealth of forms, the rhetorical and tonal range, and the variousness of content in Auden's poetry, in the confines of one volume. In particular, there are newly included examples of Auden's mastery of light