''Another Time'' is a book of poems by

W. H. Auden Wystan Hugh Auden (; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in ...

, 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 "Funeral Blues", or "Stop all the clocks", is a poem by W. H. Auden which first appeared in the 1936 play ''The Ascent of F6''. Auden substantially rewrote the poem several years later as a cabaret song for the singer Hedli Anderson. Both versi ...

", "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 "September 1, 1939" is a poem by W. H. Auden written on the outbreak of World War II. It was first published in ''The New Republic'' issue of 18 October 1939, and in book form in Auden's collection ''Another Time'' (1940). Description The po ...

", "In Memory of Sigmund Freud", and other poems. The book is dedicated to

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 ...

References

* John Fuller, ''W. H. Auden: A Commentary'' (1999) *

Edward Mendelson __NOTOC__ Edward Mendelson (born March 15, 1946) is a professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the literary executor of the Estate of W. H. Auden and the au ...

, ''Early Auden'' (1981) *

, ''Later Auden'' (1999)

External links

The W. H. Auden Society

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