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W. H. Auden (Poems selected by John Fuller)

W. H. Auden (Poems selected by John Fuller)

by James Fenton (Editor), John Fuller (Editor), W.H. Auden (Author)

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    Hardcover 2009

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Synopsis

W. H. Auden (1907-73) came to prominence in the 1930s among a generation of outspoken poets that included his friends Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender and C. Day Lewis. But he was also an intimate and lyrical poet of great originality, and a master craftsman of some of the most cherished and influential poems of the past century. Other volumes in this series include: "Betjemen", "Eliot", "Plath", "Hughes" and "Yeats".

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 112
 Edition: Main - 80th anniversary edition
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 07 May 2009
ISBN 10: 0571246974
ISBN 13: 9780571246977
Book Overview: W. H. Auden - a collection of Auden's poems, selected by John Fuller - is one of six wonderful poetry collections published to celebrate Faber's eightieth anniversary.

Author Bio
W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907, and brought up in Birmingham. He went to Christ Church College, Oxford, where Stephen Spender privately printed a booklet of his poems. After university he lived for a time in Berlin, before returning to England to teach. His first book, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber in 1930. Other volumes of poems and plays followed during the 1930s. 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.