The Shield of Achilles (New York, London, 1955 poems) (won the 1956 National Book Award for Poetry) (dedicated to Lincoln and Fidelma Kirstein). Nones (New York, 1951 London, 1952 poems) (dedicated to Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr) The Enchafèd Flood (New York, 1950 London, 1951 prose) (dedicated to Alan Ansen). The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (New York, 1947 London, 1948 verse won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) (dedicated to John Betjeman).Ĭollected Shorter Poems, 1930–1944 (London, 1950 similar to 1945 Collected Poetry) (dedicated to Christopher Isherwood and Chester Kallman). Auden (New York, 1945 includes new poems) (dedicated to Christopher Isherwood and Chester Kallman). The Double Man (New York, 1941, poems UK edn., New Year Letter, London, 1941) (Dedicated to Elizabeth Mayer).įor the Time Being (New York, 1944 London, 1945 two long poems: “The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare’s The Tempest”, dedicated to James and Tania Stern, and “For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio”, in memoriam Constance Rosalie Auden ). Forster).Īnother Time (London, New York 1940 poetry) (dedicated to Chester Kallman). Journey to a War (London, New York, 1939 verse and prose, with Christopher Isherwood) (dedicated to E. On the Frontier (London, 1938 New York 1939 play, with Christopher Isherwood) (dedicated to Benjamin Britten). Letters from Iceland (London, New York, 1937 verse and prose, with Louis MacNeice) (dedicated to George Augustus Auden). Look, Stranger! (London, 1936, poems US edn., On This Island, New York, 1937) (dedicated to Erika Mann) The Ascent of F6 (London, 1936 2nd edn., 1937 New York, 1937 play, with Christopher Isherwood) (dedicated to John Bicknell Auden).
The Dog Beneath the Skin (London, New York, 1935 play, with Christopher Isherwood) (dedicated to Robert Moody). Poems (New York, 1934 contains Poems, The Orators, and The Dance of Death). The Dance of Death (London, 1933, play) (dedicated to Robert Medley and Rupert Doone). with new preface, London, 1966 New York 1967) (dedicated to Stephen Spender). The Orators: An English Study (London, 1932, verse and prose slightly revised edn., London, 1934 revised edn. Poems (London, 1930 second edn., seven poems substituted, London, 1933 includes poems and Paid on Both Sides: A Charade) (dedicated to Christopher Isherwood). Auden is best known for love poems such as “ Funeral Blues“, poems on political and social themes such as “ September 1, 1939” and “ The Shield of Achilles“, poems on cultural and psychological themes such as The Age of Anxiety, and poems on religious themes such as “For the Time Being” and “Horae Canonicae.” (Wikipedia) Auden’s poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form and content. Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet. Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.įor nothing now can ever come to any good. The stars are not wanted now: put out every one I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong. He was my North, my South, my East and West,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,īring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,