{"product_id":"the-complete-works-of-w-h-auden-poems-volume-i-9780691219295","title":"The Complete Works of W. H. Auden Poems Volume I","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A New Statesman Book of the Year\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A Daily Telegraph Best Poetry Book of the Year\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A Tablet Book of the Year\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Mendelson is to be congratulated on this magnificent addition to our generation’s definitive Auden.\"\u003cb\u003e---John Fuller, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A dazzling, scholarly triumph.\"\u003cb\u003e---Michael Dirda, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Auden’s] oeuvre has been given a new life. . . . [in these] two new and heavily annotated volumes. . . . [Mendelson’s] mastery of this sprawling material is legendary.\"\u003cb\u003e---Brad Leithauser, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mendelson has championed a reassessment of the poet’s later work. He has not achieved this through polemic, but rather through a patient and careful effort. . . . I have been reading and teaching and writing about Auden’s poetry for many years, but I have taken the opportunity offered by these two volumes to try, as best I can, to encounter it all anew.\"\u003cb\u003e---Alan Jacobs, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Glorious.\"\u003cb\u003e---Bel Mooney, \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eThe Complete Works of W.H. Auden\u003c\/i\u003e is] an astonishing act of literary scholarship and personal dedication on Mendelson’s part, and readers the world over should be thankful for it. . . . The poems [are] strange, rich, authoritative.\"\u003cb\u003e---Nick Laird, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A complete delight.\"\u003cb\u003e---Alexander McCall Smith, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Worth reading.\"\u003cb\u003e---Sam Sifton, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A remarkable editorial enterprise.\"\u003cb\u003e---David Bromwich, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A grand thing.\"\u003cb\u003e---Tristram Fane Saunders, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These volumes show the poetic beauty and intellectual audacity of Auden’s work with a power that left me exultant.\"\u003cb\u003e---Richard Davenport-Hines, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Exhilaratingly prospective. . . . some of the most vivid poems ever committed to English . . . these two books are a monument to the acumen, scholarship, and perseverance of Edward Mendelson.\"\u003cb\u003e---Ron Horning, \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Magnificent. . . . Mendelson’s Auden has long been regarded as a monument of literary scholarship, and these two heavy poetry volumes complete the grounds for that acclaim. . . . An amazing thicket of scholarship and commentary draped around some of the most-studied and most-quoted poetry of the 20th century.\"\u003cb\u003e---Steve Donoghue, \u003ci\u003eOpen Letters Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To read Auden’s \u003ci\u003eComplete Works\u003c\/i\u003e therefore is not just to encounter the inventions of a polymathic, often ingenious writer and poet, but to enter into a ‘whole climate of opinion,’ to explore an age by way of one of its representative figures. . . . Edifying.\"\u003cb\u003e---James Matthew Wilson, \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The new two-volume set of W. H. Auden's complete poems, meticulously assembled and presented by Edward Mendelson, is highly recommended.\"\u003cb\u003e---David Lehman, \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry blog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is so good.\"\u003cb\u003e---Michael Glover, \u003ci\u003eThe Tablet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Auden is not an occasional poet, nor does he prove the (in my opinion, wrongheaded and incorrect) theory that even good poets only produce a few memorable poems. This is an amazing body of work, composed by a writer who wrote his way through life, always thinking and paying attention. . . . Writers write, and Auden did. What wonderful stuff it is.\"\u003cb\u003e---Rupert Loydell, \u003ci\u003eTears in the Fence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These two handsomely produced volumes from Princeton University Press are not only a monument to their editor’s scholarship but a timely reminder of the enduring importance of poetry and, in particular, the contribution made to it by W.H. Auden.\"\u003cb\u003e---David Cooke, \u003ci\u003eThe High Window\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As authoritative a presentation as we are likely ever to get. . . . Wonderful books.\"\u003cb\u003e---David Mason, \u003ci\u003eHudson Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In a remarkable work of scholarship, editor Edward Mendelson has assembled every poem and every revision—and explains every reference. . . . For the budding or mature poet, it’s indispensable.\" * Mosaic *\u003cbr\u003e\"Auden can be magically conversational, charming and sophisticated, vivid, lyrical and amusing. A master of rhyme and metre, he has a brilliant range of allusions and important ideas, wisdom and moral force.\"\u003cb\u003e---Jeffrey Meyers, \u003ci\u003ePN Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mendelson could not have conceived a more fitting tribute to this poet than doing for Auden’s work what Auden was always attempting to do for his own life: organize it intellectually into a grand system that takes in every detail and provides aesthetic satisfaction to the soul. . . . The definitive edition of Auden’s poetry.\"\u003cb\u003e---Stephen J. Schuler, \u003ci\u003eAd Fontes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[These two volumes] compiled and magisterially edited by Edward Mendelson, a leading Auden authority, should show readers what a versatile and commanding voice the poet possessed.\"\u003cb\u003e---Andrew Rosenheim, \u003ci\u003eThe Tablet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mendelson has put together an impres­sively comprehensive and rigorously thor­ough literary compendium that charts one of the twentieth century’s most influential expat poets.\" * The American *\u003cbr\u003e\"With the publication of Auden’s \u003ci\u003eComplete Poems,\u003c\/i\u003e no one interested in twentieth-century poetry can fail to see that we owe Edward Mendelson an immeasurable debt.\"\u003cb\u003e---Mary Jo Salter, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Matters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Edward Mendelson’s two-volume collection of Auden’s poems, spanning 1927 to 1973, is a welcome arrival, compiled by sage hands. . . . [Mendelson] is perhaps the poet’s best reader.\"\u003cb\u003e---Nick Ripatrazone, \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To this day, Auden continues to promote the poetic bar; while \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Works of W. H. Auden – Poems – Volume 1 (1927-1939\u003c\/i\u003e) is confirmation of said promotion. As not only has this veritable tomb been lavishly put together, but also meticulously and superbly edited by Edward Mendelson. Inspired and terrific beyond terrific.\"\u003cb\u003e---David Marx, \u003ci\u003eDavid Marx Book Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403910160727,"sku":"9780691219295","price":46.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691219295.jpg?v=1730484861","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-complete-works-of-w-h-auden-poems-volume-i-9780691219295","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}