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Bibliography Of W. H. Auden
This is a bibliography of books, plays, films, and libretti written, edited, or translated by the Anglo-American poet W. H. Auden (1907–1973). See the main entry for a list of biographical and critical studies and external links. Publications by W. H. Auden In the list below, works reprinted in the ''Complete Works of W. H. Auden'' are indicated by footnote references. Books and selected pamphlets * ''Poems'' (London, 1928; privately printed; different contents from 1930 volume with the same title) (dedicated to Christopher Isherwood). * ''Poems'' (London, 1930; second edn., seven poems substituted, London, 1933; includes poems and '' Paid on Both Sides: A Charade'') (dedicated to Christopher Isherwood). * ''The Orators: An English Study'' (London, 1932, verse and prose; slightly revised edn., London, 1934; revised edn. with new preface, London, 1966; New York 1967) (dedicated to Stephen Spender). * ''The Dance of Death'' (London, 1933, play) (dedicated to Robert Medley a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poems (Auden)
''Poems'' is the title of three separate collections of the early poetry of W. H. Auden. Auden refused to title his early work because he wanted the reader to confront the poetry itself. Consequently, his first book was called simply ''Poems'' when it was printed by his friend and fellow poet Stephen Spender in 1928; he used the same title for the very different book published by Faber and Faber in 1930 (2nd ed. 1933), and by Random House in 1934, which also included '' The Orators'' and ''The Dance of Death''. The privately-printed 1928 edition of ''Poems'' was of "about 45 copies", as stated on its limitation page; probably only around 30 copies were actually printed. It is one of the great rarities of twentieth century literature. The 1930 commercially published edition of ''Poems'' appeared from Faber and Faber in 1930, having been accepted by T. S. Eliot; it was printed in an edition of 1,000 copies. Only a small number of the poems in the 1928 version survived into the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Augustus Auden
George Augustus Auden (27 August 1872 – 3 May 1957) was an English physician, professor of public health, school medical officer, and writer on archaeological subjects. Biography Auden was born at Horninglow, Burton-upon-Trent, the sixth son of John Auden, the first vicar of the Church of St John the Divine, and his wife Sarah Eliza, daughter of William Hopkins, of Dunstall, Staffordshire. The Audens were minor gentry with a strong clerical tradition, originally of Rowley Regis, which was then in Staffordshire. He was educated at Repton and at Christ's College, Cambridge, taking a first-class degree in natural sciences in 1893. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, and qualified in medicine in 1896. He then held several medical appointments in London before moving to York, where he was physician at York County Hospital for fourteen years. His son W. H. Auden was born at 54 Bootham, York, in 1907, and in 1908 he moved to Birmingham, where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Betjeman
Sir John Betjeman (; 28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture, helping to save St Pancras railway station from demolition. He began his career as a journalist and ended it as one of the most popular British Poets Laureate and a much-loved figure on British television. Life Early life and education Betjeman was born John Betjemann. He was the son of a prosperous silverware maker of Dutch descent. His parents, Mabel (''née'' Dawson) and Ernest Betjemann, had a family firm at 34–42 Pentonville Road which manufactured the kind of ornamental household furniture and gadgets distinctive to Victorians. During the First World War the family name was changed to the less German-looking Betjeman. His father's forebears had actually come from the present day Netherlands more than a century earlier, setting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulitzer Prize For Poetry
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first presented in 1922, and is given for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published during the preceding calendar year. Finalists have been announced since 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner. 1918 and 1919 special prizes Before the establishment of the award, the 1918 and 1919 Pulitzer cycles included three Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards (called at the time the Columbia University Poetry Prize) for poetry books funded by "a special grant from The Poetry Society." See Special Pulitzers for Letters. * 1918: ''Love Songs'' by Sara Teasdale * 1919: ''Cornhuskers'' by Carl Sandburg * 1919: ''The Old Road to Paradise'' by Margaret Widdemer Winners In its first 92 years to 2013, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry was awarded 92 times. Two were given in 2008, none in 1946. Robert Frost won the prize fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Age Of Anxiety (poem)
''The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue'' (1947; first UK edition, 1948) is a long poem in six parts by W. H. Auden, written mostly in a modern version of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. The poem deals, in eclogue form, with man's quest to find substance and identity in a shifting and increasingly industrialized world. Set in a wartime bar in New York City, Auden uses four characters – Quant, Malin, Rosetta, and Emble – to explore and develop his themes. The poem won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1948. It inspired a symphony by composer Leonard Bernstein, ''The Age of Anxiety'' (Symphony No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra), which in turn was used for both a 1950 ballet by Jerome Robbins and a 2014 ballet by Liam Scarlett. A critical edition of the poem, edited by Alan Jacobs, was published by Princeton University Press in 2011. "The Age of Anxiety" is also the title of the first chapter of ''The Wisdom of Insecurity'' by Alan Watts (1951). In 2019, musician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Stern (writer)
James Stern (26 December 1904 – 22 November 1993) was an Anglo-Irish writer of short stories and non-fiction. He was also known for his extensive letter writing and being a friend of the famous, Malcolm Cowley once remarked to Stern, “My God, you’ve known everybody, his wife, his boyfriend, and his natural issue!” Life and career The son of a British cavalry officer of Jewish descent and an Anglo-Irish Protestant mother, Stern was born in County Meath, Ireland, and educated at Wixenford School in the south of England. After working in Southern Rhodesia as a young man, he worked for his family's bank in London and Germany, which he loathed. He escaped to Paris, where he met his German wife Tania Kurella, whom he married in 1935. They moved to New York in 1939, returned to England in the early 1950s and in 1961 moved to Hatch Manor, in Wiltshire. His fiction includes ''The Heartless Land'' (1932); ''Something Wrong'' (1938); ''The Man who was Loved'' (1952); ''The Storie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sea And The Mirror
"The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare's ''The Tempest''" is a long poem by W.H. Auden, written 1942–44, and first published in 1944. Auden regarded the work as “my ''Ars Poetica,'' in the same way I believe ''The Tempest'' to have been Shakespeare’s.” The poem is a series of dramatic monologues spoken by the characters in Shakespeare's play after the end of the play itself. These are rendered in a variety of verse forms from villanelles, sonnets, sestinas, and finally Jamesian prose, the forms corresponding to the nature of the characters e.g. Ferdinand addresses Miranda in a sonnet, a form traditionally amenable to expressions of love. The poem begins with a "Preface" ("The Stage Manager to the Critics"), followed by Part I, "Prospero to Ariel"; Part II, "The Supporting Cast, ''Sotto Voce'', spoken by individual characters in the play, each followed by a brief comment on the character of Antonio; and Part III, ''Caliban to the Audience'', spoken by Caliban i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For The Time Being
''For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio'', is a long poem by W. H. Auden, written in 1941 and 1942, and first published in 1944. It was one of two long poems included in Auden's book also titled ''For the Time Being'', published in 1944; the other poem included in the book was " The Sea and the Mirror." The poem is a series of dramatic monologues spoken by the characters in the Christmas story and by choruses and a narrator. The characters all speak in modern diction, and the events of the story are portrayed as if they occurred in the contemporary world. Its mood is sombre regarding the future of the world. For instance: "''Reason will be replaced by Revelation. Instead of Rational Law, objective truths perceptible to any who will undergo the necessary intellectual discipline, Knowledge will degenerate into a riot of subjective visions... Whole cosmogonies will be created out of some forgotten personal resentment, complete epics written in private languages, the daubs o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Mayer
Elizabeth Wolff Mayer (1884 – 14 March 1970) was a German-born American translator and editor, closely associated with W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, and other writers and musicians. After emigrating to the United States in the 1940s she used her homes in Long Island and New York City as salons for visiting artists. Biography Elizabeth Mayer was born in Germany and spent her early life in Munich. Her father had been chaplain to the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg; she studied music and was a skilled pianist. She was married to the psychiatrist, William Mayer, with whom she had two sons and two daughters. She worked as a translator in Germany, and visited D.H. Lawrence in Irschenhausen in 1927, where they discussed translation techniques. The Mayers moved to the United States in 1936 in order to flee Nazi persecution. Her homes in Long Island and New York City were used as a salon for artists. Between 1939 and 1940, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears stayed at her Long Isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Double Man (book)
''The Double Man'' is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1941. The title of the UK edition, published later the same year was ''New Year Letter''. ''The Double Man'' begins with a verse "Prologue" ("O season of repetition and return"), followed by a long three-part philosophical poem in octosyllabic couplets, ''New Year Letter'' and an idiosyncratic set of "Notes" to the poem in prose and verse. These are followed by the sonnet sequence "The Quest" and a verse "Epilogue" ("Returning each morning from a timeless world"). The entire book was written in 1940, and indirectly records Auden's return to the Anglican Communion. The book is dedicated to Elizabeth Mayer. References *John Fuller (poet), John Fuller, ''W. H. Auden: A Commentary'' (1999) *Edward Mendelson, ''Later Auden'' (1999) External links The W. H. Auden Society {{DEFAULTSORT:Double Man, The 1941 poetry books Books by W. H. Auden Poetry by W. H. Auden Random House books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chester Kallman
Chester Simon Kallman (January 7, 1921 – January 18, 1975) was an American poet, librettist, and translator, best known for collaborating with W. H. Auden on opera librettos for Igor Stravinsky and other composers. Life Kallman was born in Brooklyn of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. He received his B.A. at Brooklyn College and his M.A. at the University of Michigan. He published three collections of poems, ''Storm at Castelfranco'' (1956), ''Absent and Present'' (1963), and ''The Sense of Occasion'' (1971). He lived most of his adult life in New York, spending his summers in Italy from 1948 through 1957 and in Austria from 1958 through 1974. In 1963 he moved his winter home from New York to Athens, Greece. He died there of a heart attack on January 18, 1975, eleven days after his 54th birthday. Kallman had been the beneficiary of the entirety of Auden's estate, but himself died intestate, with the result that the estate was inherited by his next-of-kin, his father, Edward Kal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Another Time (book)
''Another Time'' is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1940. This book contains Auden's shorter poems written between 1936 and 1939, except for those already published in Letters from Iceland and Journey to a War. These poems are among the best-known of his entire career. The book is divided into three parts, "People and Places", "Lighter Poems", and "Occasional Poems". "People and Places" includes "Law, say the gardeners, is the sun", "Oxford", "A. E. Housman", "Edward Lear", "Herman Melville", "The Capital", "Voltaire at Ferney", "Orpheus", " Musée des Beaux Arts", "Gare du Midi", "Dover", and many other poems. "Lighter Poems" includes "Miss Gee", "O tell me the truth about love", "Funeral Blues", "Calypso", "Roman Wall Blues", " The Unknown Citizen", " Refugee Blues", and other poems. "Occasional Poems" includes " Spain 1937", "In Memory of W. B. Yeats", "September 1, 1939", "In Memory of Sigmund Freud", and other poems. The book is dedicated to Chester Kallma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
