W.H. Auden (1907–1973) was an English poet, playwright, and essayist who lived and worked in the United States for much of the second half of his life. His work, from his early strictly metered verse, and plays written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood, to his later dense poems and penetrating essays, represents one of the major achievements of twentieth-century literature.
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A Short Defense of Poetry
January 30, 1986
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Two Poems
December 12, 1974
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Death at Random
December 12, 1974
Twentieth Century Book of the Dead by Gil Elliot
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An Odd Ball in an Odd Country at an Odd Time
November 1, 1973
St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry
by Gerald Brenan, with a translation of the poetry by Lynda Nicholson
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No, Plato, No
November 1, 1973
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Posthumous Letter to Gilbert White
October 18, 1973
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Progress Is the Mother of Problems (G. K. Chesterton)
June 28, 1973
The Ancient Concept of Progress by E.R. Dodds
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The Poems of Joseph Brodsky
April 5, 1973
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Veni, Vici, VD
February 22, 1973
The Dark Fields of Venus: From a Doctor’s Logbook by Basile Yanovsky MD
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Happy Birthday, Dorothy Day
December 14, 1972
A Harsh and Dreadful Love: Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement by William D. Miller
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Ode to the Diencephalon
November 30, 1972
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An Odd Couple
October 19, 1972
Munby, Man of Two Worlds: The Life and Diaries of Arthur J. Munby 1828-1910 by Derek Hudson
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A Saint-Simon of Our Time
August 31, 1972
In the Twenties: The Diaries of Harry Kessler
translated by Charles Kessler, with an Introduction by Otto Friedrich
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Doing Oneself In
April 20, 1972
The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
by A. Alvarez
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A Genius and a Gentleman
March 9, 1972
Letters of Giuseppe Verdi selected, translated, and edited by Charles Osborne
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The Diary of a Diary
January 27, 1972
Kathleen and Frank by Christopher Isherwood
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Too Much Mustard
November 4, 1971
The Complete Immortalia edited by Harold H. Hart
The Gambit Book of Popular Verse edited by Geoffrey Grigson
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Talking to Mice
September 2, 1971
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Saying No
July 1, 1971
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The Megrims
June 3, 1971
Migraine by Oliver Sacks
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Bonjour Chazal
May 6, 1971
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He Descended into Hell in Vain
March 11, 1971
A Spy for God: The Ordeal of Kurt Gerstein by Pierre Joffroy
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Lines to Dr. Walter Birk on His Retiring from General Practice
February 11, 1971
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The Anomalous Creature
January 28, 1971
The Fall into Time by E.M. Cioran, translated by Richard Howard, with an Introduction by Charles Newman
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School of the Arts
January 7, 1971
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Portrait with a Wart or Two
November 5, 1970
Belloc: A Biographical Anthology edited by Herbert van Thal
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Lame Shadows
September 3, 1970
Tonio Kröger and Other Stories by Thomas Mann, translated by David Luke
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Old People’s Home
July 23, 1970
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The Ballad of Barnaby
December 18, 1969
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Poems by Gunnar Ekelöf
November 20, 1969
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Epistle to a Godson
June 5, 1969
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Protest
March 27, 1969
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Papa Was a Wise Old Sly-Boots
March 27, 1969
My Father and Myself by J.R. Ackerley
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The Lay of Grimnir
February 27, 1969
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Forty Years On
September 26, 1968
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Ode to Terminus
July 11, 1968
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A Mosaic for Marianne Moore
November 9, 1967
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A Don in the World
October 26, 1967
Memories by C.M. Bowra
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“The Lay of Hrym” and “Brunhild’s Hel-Ride”
September 28, 1967
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A Civilized Man
June 1, 1967
Theodore Spencer: Selected Essays edited by Alan C. Purves
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Prologue at Sixty
May 18, 1967
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Mr. G
February 9, 1967
Goethe: Conversations and Encounters Edited and translated by David Luke and Robert Pick
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The Lay of Völund
January 26, 1967
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River Profile
September 22, 1966
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Byron: The Making of a Comic Poet
August 18, 1966
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Filler
May 12, 1966
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The Poetry of Andrei Voznesensky
April 14, 1966
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Five Poems by Andrei Voznesensky
April 14, 1966
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Heresies
February 17, 1966
Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety by E.R. Dodds
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Noah Greenberg (1919–1966)
February 3, 1966
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Marginalia
February 3, 1966
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Mozart in the Stacks
August 5, 1965
Mozart: A Documentary Biography by Otto Erich Deutsch
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Et in Arcadia Ego
June 3, 1965
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Private Poet
November 5, 1964
Rhymes of a Pfc by Lincoln Kirstein
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The Common Life
December 26, 1963
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Adam as a Welshman
February 1, 1963
Anathemata by David Jones