7/5/2023 0 Comments Auden selected poems![]() ![]() ![]() He went to Spain during the civil war, to Iceland (with Louis MacNeice) and later travelled to China. Other volumes of poems and plays followed during the 1930s. His first book, Poems, was published by T. ![]() After university he lived for a time in Berlin, before returning to England to teach. He went to Christ Church College, Oxford, where Stephen Spender privately printed a booklet of his poems. Auden was born in York in 1907, and brought up in Birmingham. Moreover, it is prefaced by a long and very illuminating introduction which is a brilliant examination of the nature of Auden's genius and of his position and stature in twentieth-century literature. This selection, by Edward Mendelson, contains one hundred poems and offers readers a really satisfactory initial survey of Auden's poetry as a whole. It was too short to provide a full introduction to such a large body of work perhaps it was too weighted in favour of the later poetry at the time it was made some famous poems, or portions of poems, were still under an embargo imposed by Auden himself which remained in force until his death. For many years there existed a general feeling that the selection made by Auden himself in 1968 was far from satisfactory. ![]()
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