W.H. AUDEN: COLLECTED SHORTER POEMS 1927-1957
Written by W.H. Auden, Alexander McCall Smith
Illustrated by Brian Grimwood
Published by Folio Society
in 2006
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W.H. AUDEN: COLLECTED SHORTER POEMS 1927-1957
Written by W.H. Auden, Alexander McCall Smith.
Illustrated by Brian Grimwood.
Stock no. 1830781
1st thus.
2006.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition.
Introduced by Alexander McCall Smith. Green, olive & blue decorated boards, gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations. xvi and 396 pages including index. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- Foreword
- PART ONE (1927-1932)
- The Letter
- Taller Today
- Missing
- The Secret Agent
- The Watershed
- No Change of Place
- Let History be My Judge
- Never Stronger
- This Loved One
- East Knowledge
- Too Dear, Too Vague
- Between Adventure
- A Free One
- Family Ghosts
- The Questioner Who Sits So Sly
- Venus Will Now Say a Few Words
- 1929
- The Bonfires
- On Sunday Walks
- Shorts
- Happy Ending
- This Lunar Beauty
- The Question
- Five Songs
- Uncle Henry
- Consider
- The Wanderer
- The Watchers
- Adolescence
- The Exiles
- The Decoys
- Have a Good Time
- Half Way
- Ode
- Legend
- The Witnesses
- PART TWO (1933 - 1938)
- A Summer Night
- Paysage Moralise
- O What is that Sound
- Our Hunting Fathers
- Through the Looking-Glass
- Two Clibms
- Meiosis
- A Misunderstanding
- Who' Who
- Schoolchildren
- May
- A Bride in the 30's
- On this Island
- Night Mail
- As I Walked out One Evening
- Twelve Songs
- His Excellency
- Casino
- Oxford
- Dover
- Journey to Iceland
- Detective Story
- Death's Echo
- The Price
- Danse Macabre
- Lullaby
- Orpheus
- Miss Gee
- Victor
- As He IS
- A Voyage
- The Capital
- Brussels in Winter
- Musee des Beaux Arts
- Gare du Midi
- The Novelist
- The Composer
- Rimbaud
- A E Housman
- Edward Lear
- Epitaph on a Tyrant
- Sonnets from China
- PART THREE (1939 - 1947)
- In Memory of WB Yeats
- In Memory of Ernst Toller
- Voltaire at Ferney
- Herman Melville
- The Unknown Citizen
- The Prophets
- Like a Vocation
- The Riddle
- Heavy Date
- Law Like Love
- The Hidden Law
- Twelve Songs
- In Memory of Sigmund Freud
- Another Time
- Our Bias
- Hell
- Lady, Weeping at Crossroads
- Anthem for St Cecilia's Day
- The Dark Years
- The Quest
- Shorts
- No Time
- Diaspora
- Luther
- Montaigne
- The Council
- The Maze
- Blessed Event
- At the grave of Henry James
- Alone
- Leap Before you Look
- If I Could Tell You
- Atlantis
- In Sickness and in Health
- Many Happy Return
- Mundus et Infans
- Few and Simple
- The Lesson
- A Healthy Spot
- The Model
- Three Dreams
- The Fall of Rome
- In Schrafft's
- Under Which Lyre
- Music is International
- The Duet
- Pleasure Island
- A Walk After Dark
- PART FOUR (1948 - 1957)
- In Transit
- In Praise of Limestone
- Ischia
- Under Sirius
- Cattivo Tempo
- Hunting Season
- Fleet Visit
- An Island Cemetry
- Not in Baedeker
- Ode to Gaea
- Bucolics
- Shorts
- Five Songs
- Three Occasional Poems
- Their Lonely Betters
- First Things First
- The More Loving One
- A Permanent Way
- Nocturne
- Precious Five
- Memorial for the City
- The Shield of Achilles
- Secondary Epic
- Makers of History
- T The Great
- The Managers
- The Epigoni
- Bathtub Thoughts
- The Old Man's Road
- The History of Science
- The History of Truth
- Homage to Clio
- The Love Feast
- The Chimeras
- Merax & Mullin
- Limbo Culture
- There Will be no Peace
- A Household
- The Truest Poetry in the most Feigning
- We Too Had Known Golden Hours
- Secrets
- Numbers and Faces
- Objects
- Words
- The Song
- One Circumlocution
- Horae Canonicae
- Good-by to the Mezzogiorno
- Index of First Lines