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As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks, and Other Light Verse

As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks, and Other Light Verse

by W.H.Auden (Author)

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A collection of W.H. Auden's light verse, assembled by his literary executor.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 21 Oct 1996
ISBN 10: 0571178987
ISBN 13: 9780571178988
Book Overview: As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden contains the songs, ballads, lullabies, limericks, and other light verse by the formal master of twentieth-century English poetry.

Author Bio
W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907 and brought up in Birmingham. His first book, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber in 1930. He went to Spain during the civil war, to Iceland (with Louis MacNeice) and later travelled to China. In 1939 he and Christopher Isherwood left for America, where Auden spent the next fifteen years lecturing, reviewing, writing poetry and opera librettos, and editing anthologies. He became an American citizen in 1946, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. In 1956 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and a year later went to live in Kirchstetten in Austria, after spending several summers on Ischia. He died in Vienna in 1973.