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W. H. Auden Collected Poems
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W. H. Auden Collected Poems Description
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN: 9780394408958
ISBN: 0394408950
Label: Random House
Manufacturer: Random House
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 696
Publication Date: 1976-09-12
Publisher: Random House
Product Release Date: 1976-09-12
Studio: Random House
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN: 9780394408958
ISBN: 0394408950
Label: Random House
Manufacturer: Random House
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 696
Publication Date: 1976-09-12
Publisher: Random House
Product Release Date: 1976-09-12
Studio: Random House
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Review Summary: One of the great poets of the twentieth century
Review: Wystan Hugh (W. H.) Auden is rightly regarded as one of the great poets of the twentieth century. He is one of my favorites because of his great skill with language, his ability to talk about everyday life in wonderfully insightful ways, and to sing while he helps us see what he sees. His even greater gift is to make his words feel as if they came from out of our own mind and heart. We want to possess them.
Yet, he was also a very learned man, but his learning always has a point about life rather than allowing him to step into a spotlight for our adulation. You can flip to any page of this volume and find something to wonder at. Even the plainest poems have depths to plumb and the seemingly obscure yield to patient reading.
While Auden has a somewhat complicated biography, it would be a mistake to get sidetracked in too many details. While knowing the life of an artist often aids our understanding of his work, it is also a mistake to see too many parallels in his work with the happenstance of his life. Great artists draw on their lives, but they also transcend them.
I am very grateful to have this volume in my library.
Review Summary: One of the great poets of the twentieth century
Review: Wystan Hugh (W. H.) Auden is rightly regarded as one of the great poets of the twentieth century. He is one of my favorites because of his great skill with language, his ability to talk about everyday life in wonderfully insightful ways, and to sing while he helps us see what he sees. His even greater gift is to make his words feel as if they came from out of our own mind and heart. We want to possess them.
Yet, he was also a very learned man, but his learning always has a point about life rather than allowing him to step into a spotlight for our adulation. You can flip to any page of this volume and find something to wonder at. Even the plainest poems have depths to plumb and the seemingly obscure yield to patient reading.
While Auden has a somewhat complicated biography, it would be a mistake to get sidetracked in too many details. While knowing the life of an artist often aids our understanding of his work, it is also a mistake to see too many parallels in his work with the happenstance of his life. Great artists draw on their lives, but they also transcend them.
I am very grateful to have this volume in my library.