Description: Franklin Library leather edition of W.H. Auden's "Collected Poems," Edited by Edward Mendelson, one of the GREATEST BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY series, published in 1978. Bound in hunter green leather, the book has matching moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges and a satin book marker---in FINE condition. Wystan Hugh Auden, who lived from 1907-1973, was born at York and educated Oxford. After college, Auden and Christopher Isherwood sailed to New York. Auden once said: "On revisions as a matter of principle, I agree with Vallery: 'A poem is never finished; it is only abandoned.'" Auden also said: "In art as in life, bad manners, not to be confused with a deliberate intention to cause offence, are the consequence of an over-concern with one's own ego and a lack of consideration for others." Some of the poems in this complete canon include: "Let History Be My Judge," "East Knowledge," "The Questioner Who Sits So Sly," "Venus Will Now Say a Few Words," "1929," "Journey to Iceland," "The Capital," "A.E. Housman," "Edward Lear," "The Decoys," Voltaire at Ferney," 'Herman Melville," "Orpheus,: "Dover," "At the Grave of Henry James," "An Island Cemetery," "Anthem for St. Cecilia's Day," "In Memory of Sigmund Freud," "Ascension Day, 1964," "The Sabbath," "Short Ode to the Cuckoo," 'Ode to the Medieval Poets," "Doggerel by a Senior Citizen," "Paid on Both Sides: A Charade," "Anthem for St. Cecilia's Day," "A Curse," "Calypso," "Circe," "Elegy for J.F. K.," "Edward Lear," "Epitaph for the Unknown Soldier," "Friday's Child," "Herman Melville," "Homage to Clio," "Short Ode to the Cuckoo," "To T.S. Eliot on his Sixtieth Birthday," "Sonnets from China," "Song of the Orgies," "The Shield of Achilles," "Circe," "Diaspora," "Dover," "At the Grave of Henry James," "Let History Be My Judge," 737 pages, including an Appendix and an index of titles and Index of First Lines. I offer Combined shipping.
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Binding: Leather
Language: English
Illustrator: Edward Mendelson, Editor
Special Attributes: Luxury Edition
Region: Wales & U.S.
Author: W.H. Auden
Publisher: Franklin Library Greatest 20th Century
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Poetry
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1978
Original/Facsimile: Original
