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Product Description: These essays from a distinguished, international group of scholars trace the process of thinking and creation in one of the great literary minds of the twentieth century. Archival and newly available materials reveal this canonical author's composition process and artistic virtuosity...read more
By Rachel Galvin (editor)

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9781137452924 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 20, 2015, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: These essays from a distinguished, international group of scholars trace the process of thinking and creation in one of the great literary minds of the twentieth century.

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By Craig Bennell (editor)

Hardcover:

9781466506756 | CRC Pr I Llc, October 27, 2014, cover price $92.95

Paperback:

9780231107617, titled "Wystan and Chester: A Personal Memoir of W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman" | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $42.01 | also contains Wystan and Chester: A Personal Memoir of W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman

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Product Description: When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie--Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith--often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H...read more

Hardcover:

9780691144733 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 29, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie--Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith--often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W.

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Product Description: When W. H. Auden returned to Christianity in the early 1940s, he identified himself with what he called an "existential" method of spiritual and literary inquiry, which the writings of St. Augustine helped him define as a mode of thinking that not only allows for human subjectivity, but emphasizes the hopes, fears, needs, desires, and anxieties of the individual...read more

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9781611172430 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, August 1, 2013, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: When W.

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Product Description: W.H. Auden's life and work were perhaps best explained and condensed in the words of Edward Mendelson, Auden's literary executor, when he remarked, "[Auden] grew up in a household in which the scientific inquiries of his father maintained an uneasy truce with the ritualized religion of his mother...read more

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9780786449132 | Reprint edition (McFarland & Co Inc Pub, February 28, 2011), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: W.

By British Library (corporate author)

CD/Spoken Word:

9780712305358 | British Library Board, September 1, 2009, cover price $25.00

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While at sea during a freak storm near his island home in the far north, a fisherman finds a baby girl, and though he and his wife love her as their own, they realize that they may not be able to keep her from returning to the sea

Hardcover:

9780745189246 | Large print edition (Galaxy, September 1, 1998), cover price $16.95
9780789424693 | Dk Ink, October 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: While at sea during a freak storm near his island home in the far north, a fisherman finds a baby girl, and though he and his wife love her as their own, they realize that they may not be able to keep her from returning to the sea
9780571175918, titled "Wystan and Chester: A Personal Memoir of W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman" | Faber & Faber, March 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | also contains Wystan and Chester: A Personal Memoir of W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman | About this edition: During the 1950s and 1960s, W.

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9780440227946 | Reprint edition (Laurel Leaf, April 1, 2000), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: While at sea during a freak storm near his island home in the far north, a fisherman finds a baby girl, and though he and his wife love her as their own, they realize that they may not be able to keep her from returning to the sea

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780745173955 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, December 1, 1997), cover price $18.95
9780745173955 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, December 1, 1997), cover price $18.95

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9780613284615 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $13.15 | About this edition: While at sea during a freak storm near his island home in the far north, a fisherman finds a baby girl, and though he and his wife love her as their own, they realize that they may not be able to keep her from returning to the sea

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Hardcover:

9780691068053 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 28, 2017, cover price $39.50

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9780691133263 | Princeton Univ Pr, January 3, 2008, cover price $77.00

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Product Description: Cancion de cuna y otros poemas/ Lullaby and Other Poems (Spanish Edition)

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9788483462515 | Poc tra edition (Debolsillo, February 28, 2007), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Cancion de cuna y otros poemas/ Lullaby and Other Poems (Spanish Edition)

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A centennial collection restores the original versions of poems that the author had at one time revised and replaced to bring his earlier works more in line with his later beliefs, in an expanded edition of poetry. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

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9780307278081 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, February 13, 2007), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Restores the original versions of poems that Auden had revised and includes such works as 'Will You Turn a Deaf Ear,' 'This Lunar Beauty,' 'Noon,' and 'First Things First.
9780679724834 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, December 1, 1989), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Restores the original versions of poems that Auden had at one time revised and replaced to bring his earlier works more in line with his later beliefs

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Presents an anthology of popular, unpretentious poems by English authors from early times to the beginning of the twentieth century, including previously censored poems.
By W. H. Auden and Edward Mendelson (foreword by)

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9781590170892 | New York Review of Books, July 10, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Presents an anthology of popular, unpretentious poems by English authors from early times to the beginning of the twentieth century, including previously censored poems.

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Product Description: W.H. Auden's life and work were perhaps best explained and condensed in the words of Edward Mendelson, Auden's literary executor, when he remarked, "[Auden] grew up in a household in which the scientific inquiries of his father maintained an uneasy truce with the ritualized religion of his mother...read more

Hardcover:

9780786414437 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, March 1, 2004, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: W.

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A definitive anthology of the poet's longer works includes The Sea and the Mirror, a poetic commentary inspired by The Tempest, and Letter to Lord Byron in which Auden offers lighthearted views of England and past great artists. Reissue. 10,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780375508752 | Reissue edition (Random House Inc, September 1, 2002), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A definitive anthology of the poet's longer works includes The Sea and the Mirror, a poetic commentary inspired by The Tempest, and Letter to Lord Byron in which Auden offers lighthearted views of England and past great artists.

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9780394720142 | Random House Inc, December 1, 1975, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Includes The Sea And The Mirror, a poetic commentary inspired by The Tempest, and Letter To Lord Byron in which Auden offers lighthearted views of England and past great artists

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Hardcover:

9780691089355 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 15, 2002, cover price $97.00

Hardcover:

9780691004198 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $80.00

Paperback:

9780691070490 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 5, 2000, cover price $60.00

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Product Description: Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s, and here Donald Mitchell traces their lives during one crucial year, 1936. They worked hard to establish themselves, first through the GPO film unit, in a collaboration which flowered and spilled over into the theatre, and then radio - a new medium that the liveliest creative minds of the time were exploring and exploiting...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780851157900 | 2 edition (Boydell Pr, July 1, 2000), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Benjamin Britten and W.

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Product Description: The definitive study of Auden's poems from 1939 to 1973."For a poet like myself, an autobiography is redundant," W. H. Auden wrote to a friend, "since anything of importance that happens to one is immediately incorporated, however obscurely, in a poem...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780374184087 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1999, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Examines W.

Paperback:

9780374526993 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 2000, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The definitive study of Auden's poems from 1939 to 1973.

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A thorough look at Auden's writings before 1939 traces the poet's intellectual development and literary influences

Hardcover:

9780670287123 | Viking Pr, July 1, 1981, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A thorough look at Auden's writings before 1939 traces the poet's intellectual development and literary influences

Paperback:

9780374526955 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 2000, cover price $16.00
9780674219861 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, March 1, 1983), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: A thorough look at Auden's writings before 1939 traces the poet's intellectual development and literary influences

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Product Description: This study reads Auden's poetry and plays through the shifts from modernism to postmodernism. It analyses the experiments in Auden's writings for their engagement with crucial contemporary problems: that of the individual in relation to others, loved ones, community, society, but also transcendental truths...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780312221386 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 2000, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: This study reads Auden's poetry and plays through the shifts from modernism to postmodernism.

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Product Description: In this lucid and balanced treatise Alan Jacobs reveals the true parameters of Auden's change after the poet's move to America in 1939. By carefully examining poems that represent transitional moments in Auden's thinking, Jacobs identifies the points at which the tectonic plates of the poet's intellect clashed and the buckles and rifts these pressures caused in Auden's body of work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9781557285034 | Univ of Arkansas Pr, August 1, 1998, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In this lucid and balanced treatise Alan Jacobs reveals the true parameters of Auden's change after the poet's move to America in 1939.

Paperback:

9781557285829 | Univ of Arkansas Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: In this lucid and balanced treatise Alan Jacobs reveals the true parameters of Auden's change after the poet's move to America in 1939.

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A definitive portrait of poet W. H. Auden describes his English youth, 1939 emigration to New York, singleminded pursuit of his literary endeavors, voracious quest for experience, sexual attitudes, and central role in the artistic, literary, and intellectual world of his era. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. NYT.

Hardcover:

9780679426332 | Pantheon Books, February 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Profiles the twentieth-century English poet, librettist, and essayist, describing how his works reflected the political, spiritual, and sexual attitudes of his time

Paperback:

9780679747857 | Vintage Books, June 15, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A definitive portrait of poet W.

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Drawing on much contemporary material, including Auden's fascinating unpublished diary, this book places personal experience in the context of the life of a great city: not only its political, artistic and cultural life, but the life of the streets, bars and caf� It presents portraits of figures, often fascinating in their own right, with whom Auden and Isherwood came into contact, and it demonstrates how, especially in Isherwood's fiction, the raw material of daily existence was transformed into art. The wide scope of this study, which ranges from poetry and cinema to street violence and prostitution, provides a richly detailed context for its account of two writers engaged in the process of self-definition. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780312211738 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 15, 1998, cover price $130.00
9780333720226 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 17, 1998, cover price $130.00

Paperback:

9780312227128 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 5, 2000, cover price $26.00
9780333803998 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 17, 1998, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Drawing on much contemporary material, including Auden's fascinating unpublished diary, this book places personal experience in the context of the life of a great city: not only its political, artistic and cultural life, but the life of the streets, bars and caf� It presents portraits of figures, often fascinating in their own right, with whom Auden and Isherwood came into contact, and it demonstrates how, especially in Isherwood's fiction, the raw material of daily existence was transformed into art.

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