Volume 24, Number 1 · February 3, 1977
Inside Auden's Landscape
By Irvin Ehrenpreis
Collected Poems
by W.H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson
Random House, 696 pp., $17.95
The fat new volume of Auden's Collected Poems, superbly edited by Edward Mendelson (and hideously produced by the publisher), gives us extraordinary opportunities to notice the persistence of the poet's themes and devices. Even in the dark, portentous poems of Auden's early career, there were clear designs, the language of common speech, and an unpremeditated, dramatic manner. It was, in fact, the balance of these elements against the enigma that drew us in.
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