Auden
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About the House
- £100.00
- First published in 1965 by Random House (first published in England by Faber & Faber in 1966). The book is in two unnumbered parts, "Thanksgiving for a Habitat", a sequence of poems about Auden's house in Kirchstetten, Austria, and a miscellaneous group of poems headed "In and Out". Almost all…
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Britten & Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936
- £25.00
- A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period. 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…
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City Without Walls and other poems
- £30.00
- Contains Auden's shorter poems written from 1965 to 1968, together with his translations of the lyrics of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage, and a few poems written earlier. Among the best-known poems in the book are the title poem, "The Horatians", "Amor Loci", "Forty Years On", "Partition", "August, 1968", "Fairground", "River…
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On The Frontier, a Melodrama in three acts
- £50.00
- One of three plays that Auden and Isherwood co-wrote. It tells of the conflict between the fictional countries of Ostnia and Westland—one representing freedom and one that does not.In Act Two, an Ostnian household occupies the left half of the stage, and a Westland household occupies the right half. Some…
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Paul Bunyan: the libretto of the opera
- £20.00
- Libretto for the operetta Paul Bunyan, the story of the American folk hero follows the development of the American continent from virgin forest to civilization. It does so in a deliberately eclectic style. Spoken dialogue is interspersed with set numbers and interludes with narrative and guitar accompaniment. Although often light-hearted,…
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Poetry in Motion
- £12.00
- Alan Bennett brings his own unique observations to six of Britain's finest and most popular poets. The collection comprises poems by Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, John Betjeman and Philip Larkin.
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Some Poems (Auden)
- £30.00
- Anthology of some of the more well-known poems from Auden's previously published collections
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Some Poems (Auden)
- £18.00
- Anthology of some of the more well-known poems from Auden's previously published collections
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T.S. Eliot: A symposium
- £40.00
- A fine festschrift for Eliot on his 60th Birthday, in the year that he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1948), including contributions by Auden, Aiken, Moore, Lewis, Betjeman, Durrell, Spender, Muir and many others. It was compiled by Richard March and the Sri Lankan poet (and founder of…
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Thank you, Fog
- £35.00
- Thank You, Fog: Last Poems by W. H. Auden is a posthumous book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1974. The book contains poems written mostly in 1972 and 1973; after Auden's death in September 1973 it was prepared for publication by his literary executor Edward Mendelson, who…
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The Best Poems of 1940
- £15.00
- Contributions by John Hall Wheelock, Robert Frost, Humbert Wolfe, Stephen Vincent Benet, Paul Engle, Louis Ginsberg, A.E. Housman, Conrad Aiken, G.K. Chesterton, W.H. Auden, and many others.
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The Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy
- £35.00
- No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the early twentieth-century taboos surrounding homoerotic desire; no poet before or since has so gracefully melded elegy and irony as the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863Ð1933).…
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About the House
- £100.00
- First published in 1965 by Random House (first published in England by Faber & Faber in 1966). The book is in two unnumbered parts, "Thanksgiving for a Habitat", a sequence of poems about Auden's house in Kirchstetten, Austria, and a miscellaneous group of poems headed "In and Out". Almost all…
- Add to basket
-
Britten & Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936
- £25.00
- A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period. 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…
- Add to basket
-
City Without Walls and other poems
- £30.00
- Contains Auden's shorter poems written from 1965 to 1968, together with his translations of the lyrics of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage, and a few poems written earlier. Among the best-known poems in the book are the title poem, "The Horatians", "Amor Loci", "Forty Years On", "Partition", "August, 1968", "Fairground", "River…
- Add to basket
-
On The Frontier, a Melodrama in three acts
- £50.00
- One of three plays that Auden and Isherwood co-wrote. It tells of the conflict between the fictional countries of Ostnia and Westland—one representing freedom and one that does not.In Act Two, an Ostnian household occupies the left half of the stage, and a Westland household occupies the right half. Some…
- Add to basket
-
Paul Bunyan: the libretto of the opera
- £20.00
- Libretto for the operetta Paul Bunyan, the story of the American folk hero follows the development of the American continent from virgin forest to civilization. It does so in a deliberately eclectic style. Spoken dialogue is interspersed with set numbers and interludes with narrative and guitar accompaniment. Although often light-hearted,…
- Add to basket
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Poetry in Motion
- £12.00
- Alan Bennett brings his own unique observations to six of Britain's finest and most popular poets. The collection comprises poems by Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, John Betjeman and Philip Larkin.
- Add to basket
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Some Poems (Auden)
- £30.00
- Anthology of some of the more well-known poems from Auden's previously published collections
- Add to basket
-
Some Poems (Auden)
- £18.00
- Anthology of some of the more well-known poems from Auden's previously published collections
- Add to basket
-
T.S. Eliot: A symposium
- £40.00
- A fine festschrift for Eliot on his 60th Birthday, in the year that he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1948), including contributions by Auden, Aiken, Moore, Lewis, Betjeman, Durrell, Spender, Muir and many others. It was compiled by Richard March and the Sri Lankan poet (and founder of…
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Thank you, Fog
- £35.00
- Thank You, Fog: Last Poems by W. H. Auden is a posthumous book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1974. The book contains poems written mostly in 1972 and 1973; after Auden's death in September 1973 it was prepared for publication by his literary executor Edward Mendelson, who…
- Add to basket
-
The Best Poems of 1940
- £15.00
- Contributions by John Hall Wheelock, Robert Frost, Humbert Wolfe, Stephen Vincent Benet, Paul Engle, Louis Ginsberg, A.E. Housman, Conrad Aiken, G.K. Chesterton, W.H. Auden, and many others.
- Add to basket
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The Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy
- £35.00
- No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the early twentieth-century taboos surrounding homoerotic desire; no poet before or since has so gracefully melded elegy and irony as the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863Ð1933).…
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