Auden complete works6/19/2023 ![]() Edward Mendelson deserves gratitude and unmitigated praise." -Seamus Perry, Times Literary Supplement "One of Truthdig’s 2015 Books of the Year" "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. The text includes corrections and revisions that Auden marked in personal copies of his work and that are published here for the first time. ![]() ![]() It also features late essays and reviews that in many cases present lightly disguised autobiographies, among them the most detailed account of his sexuality, in "Papa Was a Wise Old Sly-Boots." The appendixes gather lectures and public talks that are otherwise unpublished or unavailable.Įdward Mendelson’s comprehensive notes provide biographical and historical explanations of obscure references. ![]() It contains the full text of the only book that he regarded as an autobiography, A Certain World, in which he portrayed himself by selecting and commenting on writings by others that most affected him throughout his life. ![]() Auden's prose displays a great writer’s mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. The final volume of the complete prose of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers ![]()
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