''Bucolics'' is a sequence of poems by
W. H. Auden written in
1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
* February 6
** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...
and
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...
. The seven poems in the sequence are: "Winds", "Woods, "Mountains", "Lakes", "Islands", "Plains", and "Streams".
The sequence was first published in book form in Auden's book ''
The Shield of Achilles'' (1955), together with a parallel sequence "
Horae Canonicae."
[Bloomfield, B. C., and Edward Mendelson (1972). ''W. H. Auden: A Bibliography 1924–1969''. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, University Press of Virginia. .]
References
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Poetry by W. H. Auden