Tell Me the Truth About Love: Fifteen Poems

Tell Me the Truth About Love: Fifteen Poems

by W.H.Auden (Author)

Synopsis

A collection of 10 of W.H. Auden's love poems and cabaret songs from the 1930s.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
Edition: Reprint.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 04 Oct 1999

ISBN 10: 0571202608
ISBN 13: 9780571202607
Book Overview: Tell Me the Truth About Love gathers fifteen of W. H. Auden's most famous love poems and cabaret songs, including the 'Funeral Blues' famously included in Four Weddings and a Funeral, as well as other favourites such as 'Lullaby' and 'Calypso'.

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.