To order this book within the UK, either use the button below to pay using PayPal or a credit card (using PayPal Guest Checkout), or email us: FREE for items above £45 (otherwise £4.50 per item, added at checkout) Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 was first published in this edition on 24 November 1966 in an edition of 7,310 copies.
Besides, the volume looks alarmingly big already’ (p. The poems included cover a span of thirty years, there are, if I’ve counted rightly, three hundred of them, I was twenty when I wrote the earliest, fifty when I wrote the latest four nice round numbers. In the following year I transferred my summer residence from Italy to Austria, so starting a new chapter in my life which is not yet finished. The foreword concludes with Auden’s rationale for the parameters of Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957: ‘his collection stops at the year nineteen-fifty-seven. 24 both lamented these omissions, the former commenting that those in the three categories identified by Auden ‘account, alas, for some of his best work’ and the latter – who judges the volume’s contents ‘a formidable body of work’ – regretting the excisions but praising the inclusion of new material from the period 1927 to 1930. 27 and Cyril Connolly in The Sunday Times (27 November 1966), p. Alvarez in The Observer (27 November 1966), p. cit.), a decision which ‘prompted complaints by critics who believed that he had altered his work because he no longer held his earlier left-wing positions’ (ODNB). 15).Īuden states that ‘ome poems which I wrote, and, unfortunately, published, I have thrown out because they were dishonest, or bad-mannered, or boring’ ( loc. Consequently, though I have sometimes shuffled poems so as to bring together those related by theme or genre, in the main their order is chronological’ (p. To-day, nearing sixty, I believe that I know myself and my poetic intentions better and, if anybody wants to look at my writings from an historical perspective, I have no objection. At the age of thirty-seven I was still too young to have any sure sense of the direction in which I was moving, and I did not wish critics to waste their time, and mislead readers, making guesses about it which would almost certainly turn out to be wrong. In his foreword to this volume, the successor to Collected Shorter Poems 1934-1944 and the last selection of shorter pieces he made in his lifetime, Auden wrote that ‘n 1944, when I first assembled my shorter pieces, I arranged them in the alphabetical order of their first lines. This may have been a silly thing to do, but I had a reason. Auden (New York, 1945), later issuing the collection in Britain under the title Collected Shorter Poems 1934-1944 (London, 1950). First edition. Auden (1907-1973) had first gathered his shorter poems in 1944 and published them in the United States (his home since 1939) under the title The Collected Poetry of W.H.
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