Description
W. H. Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry – a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry and ending with an Horatian expansiveness and conversational sweep, this volume is essential reading for anyone seriously interested in modern poetry after T. S. Eliot.
In his lifetime a controversial, outspoken, yet enigmatic, writer, Auden has gradually come to seem an intimate poet, as we have learned to read him correctly. This volume is the best possible introduction to his consummate craftsmanship and his unparalleled originality which made him the master-poet of his generation.
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
A Durable Fire: a Play 
Strong in the Rain 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree: A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Hansel and Gretel 
The Twelve Days of Christmas 
Bedouin Of The London Evening: Collected Poems 
Ten Poems about London (Selected and Introduced by George Szirtes) 
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid