{"product_id":"as-i-walked-out-one-w-h-auden-9780679761709","title":"As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks, and Other Light Verse","description":"W. H. Auden once defined light verse as the kind that is written by poets who are democratically in tune with their audience and whose language is straightforward and close to general speech. Given that definition, the 123 poems in this collection all qualify; they are as accessible as popular songs yet have the wisdom and profundity of the greatest poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs I Walked Out One Evening\u003c\/b\u003e contains some of Auden's most memorable verse: \"Now Through the Night's Caressing Grip,\" \"Lullaby: Lay your Sleeping Head, My Love,\" \"Under Which Lyre,\" and \"Funeral Blues.\" Alongside them are less familiar poems, including seventeen that have never before appeared in book form. Here, among toasts, ballads, limericks, and even a foxtrot, are \"Song: The Chimney Sweepers,\" a jaunty evocation of love, and the hilarious satire \"Letter to Lord Byron.\" By turns lyrical, tender, sardonic, courtly, and risqu , \u003cb\u003eAs I Walked Out One Evening\u003c\/b\u003e is Auden at his most irresistible and affecting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e W. H. Auden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0679761705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679761709\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/08\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.24w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/1995 pg. 79","brand":"W. H. Auden","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946921820415,"sku":"9780679761709","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_329f66f7-4073-4038-b142-3f00c843beac.jpg?v=1681515758","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/as-i-walked-out-one-w-h-auden-9780679761709","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}