{"product_id":"juvenilia-9780691102818","title":"Juvenilia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing together the poems written by Auden between the ages of fifteen and twenty-one (1922-1928), this book gives us a detailed look at the literary personality, development, and preoccupations of a major poet. It also describes crucial unknown aspects of his youth during his years at Gresham's School and at Christ Church, Oxford.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Katherine Bucknell has done an excellent job as an editor... [Auden] would have acknowledged that this is the way scholarship should go about its job.\"--John Bayley, Times Literary Supplement \"Auden's Poems (1930) [is] one of the century's most weirdly original first books. Thanks to Katherine Bucknell, we can now ponder in detail how he got there.\"--Ian Hamilton, London Review of Books \"As loving and meticulous and informing an edition as any writer, young or old, could wish for... Watching Auden invent Audenesque is one of the many joys of this volume.\"--Valentine Cunningham, Chicago Tribune \"Containing more than two hundred poems, the book chronicles Auden's progress from his first verses, written when he was fifteen years old ... As one of the most complete and scrupulous accounts of a major poet's apprenticeship, it offers what amounts to a series of master classes in the development of poetic talent and the acquisition of rhetorical skill.\"--Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi  ABBREVIATIONS xv  INTRODUCTION xix  TEXTUAL NOTE liii  POEMS  California 3  A Moment 4  The Blind Lead the Blind 5  Pardon 5  Dawn ('Far into the vast the mists grow dim') 6  On Seeing Some Dutch Pictures 6  Joy 7  Envoi ('You go') 7  Envoi No. 2 ('You go') 8  The Circus 8  Everest 9  Dream 10  February Dawn 11  A Rainy Afternoon 11  The Coming of Love 12  Nightfall ('Cool whisper of the trees') 12  Envoi ('Take up your load and go, lad') 13  To a Toadstool 14  To a Field-mouse 14  To a Small Buddha 15  On a Greek Tomb Relief 15  After Reading Keats' Ode 15  Belief 16  Sonnet ('This world is full of lovely things') 16  A Tale 17  Early Morning Bathing 19  Woods in Rain 20  Appletreewick 21  The Sower 22  The Lost Secret 22  Prayer 23  Autumn 24  The Dragon-fly 25  To a Child in Tears 25  November at Weybourne 26  Finis 28  Bawbcc 29  The Old Lead-mine 29  The Old Mine 31  March Song 31  Alston Moor 32  Skyreholme Mill 33  i. By Day  ii. By Night  September 34  The Plane Tree 34  Speech 35  Dawn ('On the cold waterfall, the flush of dawn gleams bright') -36  Song ('Past all your knowing') -36  March Winds 37  The Mill 37  Two Triolets 38  The Last Time 38  By the Fire 39  The North 39  We Sat 40  My Lady of the Wood 41  March 42  Envoi ('From the red chimneys smoke climbs slow and straight') 43  Song ('I have a little book') 44  Arthur's Quoit, Dyffryn 44  In the Nursery 45  Christ in Hades 46  Sonnet I ('There was desolate silence on the world') 47  Sonnet II ('It matters not that we shall cease to be') 47  Vision 48  Stone Walls ('Where do they travel to') 49  The Owl 50  Farglow 51  Inn Song 51  The Miner's Wife 52  In a Train 53  Rookhope (Weardale, Summer 1922) 54  The Cat 54  By the Gasworks, Solihull 55  The Robin 55  Early Morning ('Perched on a nettled stump he stands') 56  The Walk 57  Elegy ('Why was it that you gave us no warning') 57  The Old Colliery 59  The Rookery 60  After the Storm 61  The Tarn 62  Before ('I mark not without') 63  Buzzards 64  'There is so much that I can share with you' 65  After the Burial 66  The Traction-engine 67  J. S. Bach 67  The Candies Gutter Low 68  'Though thy rafters are grown rotten' 69  Allendale 70  At Parting ('Under the lamp's exhausted glare') 71  The Engine House 72  'Since the Autumn day' 73  The Pumping Engine, Cashwell 74  'Whenever I see for the first time' 75  The Mail-train, Crewe 76  'So I must go my way' 78  He Revisits the Spot 78  'The dew steams off the thatches' 79  'Now from far eastern wolds, the bay' 79  Nightfall ('As ghosts peer over a bedroom curtain') 80  Skyreholme Mill ('The mill-wheel never seems to tire') 80  Stone Walls ('One almost takes a hedge for granted') 81  'Like other men, when I go past' 82  'The crocus stars the border' 83  Damming Stream 8-3  Sunday Morning 84  A Visit 85  The Hidden Lane (Near Selbrigg, March 1925) 8-5  April in a Town 87  The Mill (Hempstead) 87  Elegy ('A wagtail splutters in the stream') 90  job 91  Richard Jefferies 92  The Sawmill 93  'Below me Ticknall lay but in the light' 94  'The Road's Your Place' 95  Landscape 96  The Dying House 96  Friendship 97  The Sunken Lane 98  Punchard 98  To E. T. 100  The Canal, Froghall 100  Song ('The merriest cuckoo') 101  Sonnet ('April is here but when will Easter come?') 102  Memento Creatoris Tui 103  Earth's Praises 104  Daily Bread 104  The Dark Fiddler 106  Maria hat geholfen 107  Sunshine 108  Autumn Evening 108  The Carter's Funeral 109  Rain 110  Ina Country Churchyard in  The Gipsy Girl 112  Frost 113  Flowers and Stationmaster 114  Ploughing 115  Helen 116  'At last, down in the lane' 117  Christmas Eve 118  Trippers I 19  Progress 121  Waste 121  Alone 122  Motherhood 123  On Receiving a Christmas Card 124  The Photograph of a Boy in Costume 124  At the Maison Lyons 125  An Episode 125  Song ('The crocus stars the border') 126  Lead's the Best 127  Felo de se 130  Dethroned 130  April 131  The Letter 132  Chloe to Daphnis in Hyde Park 134  Thomas Prologizes 136  Pride ('Love's specious information') 139  At Parting ('Though Time now tears apart') 140  Portrait 141  Amor Vincit Omnia 142  Yes and No 143  Cinders 143  Thomas Epilogizes 146  Humpty Dumpty 149  Lovers' Lane 153  Bank Holiday 156  Last Bus, Saturday Night 160  Song ('Relation seemed ordained for us') 161  First Meeting 162  Consequences 162  In Due Season 164  Early Morning ('Earth rolls these houses out into the sun') 16.5  Tea-time in November 166  The Happy Tree 167  Winter Afternoon 168  Say Yes! 169  Ballad 169  The Last of the Old Year 171  Before ('Unkempt and furtive the wind crawls') 172  Encounter 174  After 175  Day-dreams of a Tourist I  The Evolution of the Dragon 177  Pride ('When Little Claus meets Big Claus in the road') 180  Quique Amavit 181  Easter Monday 183  Narcissus 185  Hodge Looks toward London 188  Aware 191  Bach and the Lady 192  Extract 193  'Out of sight assuredly, not out of mind' 194  The Megalopsych 199  I. 'The sprinkler on the lawn'  II. \"'The Megalopsych,\" says Aristotle'  III. '\"Buzzards!\" I heard you say'  IV. 'Squatting Euclid drew in sand'  V. 'The oboe notes'  VI. 'Consider, if you will, how lovers lie'  VII. 'Amoeba in the running water'  VIII. 'Upon the ridge the mill-sails glow'  IX. 'I wake with a dry mouth'  'The sprinkler on the lawn' 205  (a) 'The sprinkler on the lawn'  (b) 'Bones wrenched, weak whimper, lids wrinkled, first dazzle known'  (c) 'We saw in Spring'  (d) 'This peace can last no longer than the storm'  (e) \"'Buzzards\" I heard you say'  (f) 'Consider if you will how lovers stand'  (g) 'Amoeba in the running water'  (h) 'Upon the ridge the mill-sails glow'  'I chose this lean country' 210  'On the frontier at dawn getting down' 214  'No trenchant parting this' 215  'Truly our fathers had the gout' 216  'We, knowing the family history' 217  'Who stands, the crux left of the watershed' 218  'Suppose they met, the inevitable procedure' 220  'The crowing of the cock' 221  'Nor was that final, for about that time' 224  'Deemed this an outpost, I' 225  'Because sap fell away' 227  'The mind to body spoke the whole night through' 229  'From the very first coming down' 231  'The four sat on in the bare room' 232  'The houses rolled into the sun' 234  'The colonel to be shot at dawn' 234  'To-night when a full storm surrounds the house' 235  'The weeks of blizzard over' 236  'Light strives with darkness, right with wrong' 238  'Control of the Passes was. he saw, the key' 239  'Taller to-day, we remember similar evenings' 240  'The spring will come' 241  'The summer quickens grass' 242  '\"Grow thin by walking and go inland\"' 243  'Some say that handsome raider still at large' 244  'Often the man, alone shut, shall consider' 245  'To throw away the key and walk away' 246  'The Spring unsettles sleeping partnerships' 248  'No, not from this life, not from this life is any' 249  APPENDIX 'Rotation' by 'Mystan Baudom' 251  INDEX 253","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403726496087,"sku":"9780691102818","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691102818.jpg?v=1730484367","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/juvenilia-9780691102818","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}