{"product_id":"the-complete-works-of-w-h-auden-poems-volume-ii-9780691219301","title":"The Complete Works of W. H. Auden Poems Volume II","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\"A dazzling, scholarly triumph.\"\u003cb\u003e---Michael Dirda, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\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\"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\"[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\"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\"A remarkable editorial enterprise.\"\u003cb\u003e---David Bromwich, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\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\"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\"A grand thing.\"\u003cb\u003e---Tristram Fane Saunders, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\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\"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","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403910193495,"sku":"9780691219301","price":46.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691219301.jpg?v=1730484861","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-complete-works-of-w-h-auden-poems-volume-ii-9780691219301","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}