{"product_id":"the-complete-works-of-w-w-h-auden-9780691133263","title":"The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose, Volume III: 1949-1955","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume contains all of W. H. Auden's prose works from 1949 through 1955, including many little-known essays that exemplify his range, wit, depth, and wisdom. The book includes the complete text of Auden's first separately published prose book, \u003ci\u003eThe Enchafèd Flood, or, The Romantic Iconography of the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, followed by more than one hundred separate essays, reviews, introductions, and lectures, as well as a questionnaire (complete with his own answers) about the reader's fantasy version of Eden. Two reviews that Auden wrote for the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, but which the magazine never printed, appear here for the first time, and a series of aphorisms previously published only in a French translation are printed in English. Among the previously unpublished lectures is a long account of the composition of his poem \"Prime,\" complete with his comments on early rejected drafts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The variety of style and subject in this book is almost inexhaustible. Auden writes about the imaginary mirrors that everyone carries through life; French existentialism and \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e cartoons; Freud, Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky, and Camus; Keats, Cervantes, Melville, Colette, Byron, Virgil, Yeats, Tolkien, and Virginia Woolf; opera, ballet, cinema, prosody, and music; English and American poetry and society; and politics and religion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The introduction by Edward Mendelson places the essays in biographical and historical context, and the extensive textual notes explain obscure contemporary references and provide an often-amusing history of Auden's work as an editor of anthologies and a series of books by younger poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e W. H. Auden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691133263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691133263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/23\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.42h x 6.57w x 1.92d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/22\/2007 pg. 49\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2007 pg. 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooks \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2011 pg. 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/20\/2008 pg. 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooks \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2009 pg. 39\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/23\/2011 pg. 51","brand":"W. H. Auden","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48447758598399,"sku":"9780691133263","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_00c5d758-a759-49ea-91b8-bb8736dd9546.jpg?v=1777234611","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-complete-works-of-w-w-h-auden-9780691133263","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}