W.H. Auden: Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957

W.H. Auden: Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957W. H. Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with Anglo Saxon poetry and ending with an Horatian expansiveness and conversational sweep, this volume is essential reading for anyone seriously interested in modern poetry after T. S. Eliot. In his lifetime a controversial, outspoken, yet enigmatic, writer, Auden has gradually come to seem an intimate

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