This is a bibliography of books, plays, films, and libretti written, edited, or translated by the Anglo-American poet W. H. Auden (1907–1973). See the main entry for a list of biographical and critical studies and external links. Dates are dates of publication of performance, not of composition.
The Orators: An English Study (London, 1932, verse and prose; slightly revised edn., London, 1934; revised edn. with new preface, London, 1966; New York 1967) (dedicated to Stephen Spender).
The Old Man's Road (New York, 1956; pamphlet with poems, all included in Homage to Clio).
W. H. Auden: A Selection by the Author (Harmondsworth, 1958; New York, 1959, as Selected Poetry of W. H. Auden) (includes some new revisions to previously published poems)
"Gresham's School" in Graham Greene (ed.) The Old School: Essays by Divers Hands (London: Jonathan Cape, 1934)[12]
Edited selections of individual authorsedit
A Selection from the Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (New York, 1944; UK edn. Tennyson: An Introduction and a Selection, London, 1946); introduction reprinted.[7]
Selected Prose and Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe (New York, 1950; rev. edn., 1956); introduction reprinted.[7]
The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard (New York, 1952; UK edn., Kierkegaard: Selected and Introduced by W. H. Auden, London, 1955); introduction reprinted.[3]
A Choice of De La Mare's Verse (London, 1963); introduction reprinted.[4]
Louis MacNeice, Selected Poems (London, 1964); preface reprinted.[5]
George Gordon, Lord Byron, Selected Poetry and Prose (New York, 1966); introduction reprinted.[5]
G. K. Chesterton: A Selection from His Non-Fictional Prose (London, 1970); introduction reprinted.[6]
Prose, Volume V: 1963-1968 (2015, seventh vol. of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, ed. by Edward Mendelson).[5]
Prose, Volume VI: 1969-1973 (2015, eighth vol. of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, ed. by Edward Mendelson).[6]
Referencesedit
^ abcdefghAuden, W. H. and Christopher Isherwood; ed. by Edward Mendelson (1988). Plays and other dramatic writings by W. H. Auden, 1928-1938. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN0-691-06740-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ abcdefAuden, W. H.; ed. by Edward Mendelson (1996). Prose and travel books in prose and verse, Volume I: 1926-1938. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN0-691-06803-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ abcdeAuden, W. H.; ed. by Edward Mendelson (2008). Prose, Volume III: 1949-1955. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN978-0-691-13326-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ abcdAuden, W. H.; ed. by Edward Mendelson (2010). Prose, Volume IV: 1956-1962. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN978-0-691-14755-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ abcdeAuden, W. H.; ed. by Edward Mendelson (2015). Prose, Volume V: 1963-1968. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN978-0-691-151717.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ abcAuden, W. H.; ed. by Edward Mendelson (2015). Prose, Volume VI: 1969-1973. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN978-0-691-164588.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ abcdefAuden, W. H.; ed. by Edward Mendelson (2002). Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN0-691-08935-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Mitchell, Donald, ed. (1991). Letters from a Life: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 1 1929-39. London: Faber & Faber. ISBN0-571-15221X., p. 316
^Rice, Tom (May 2008). "God's Chillun". Colonial Film. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
^ abcdefghAuden, W. H. and Chester Kallman; ed. by Edward Mendelson (1993). Libretti and other dramatic writings by W. H. Auden, 1939–1973. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN0-691-03301-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Bonnie Costello, Rachel Galvin, Auden at Work (2015), p. 299
Post-1969 supplements to the item listed above are included in the following:
Auden, W. H.; ed. by Katherine Bucknell and Nicholas Jenkins (1990) "The Map of All My Youth": early works, friends and influences (Auden Studies 1). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN0-19-812964-5.
Auden, W. H.; ed. by Katherine Bucknell and Nicholas Jenkins (1994). "The Language of Learning and the Language of Love": uncollected writings, new interpretations (Auden Studies 2). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN0-19-812257-8.
Auden, W. H.; ed. by Katherine Bucknell and Nicholas Jenkins (1995). "In Solitude, For Company": W. H. Auden after 1940: unpublished prose and recent criticism (Auden Studies 3). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN0-19-818294-5.
External linksedit
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This is a bibliography of books plays films and libretti written edited or translated by the Anglo American poet W H Auden 1907 1973 See the main entry for a list of biographical and critical studies and external links Dates are dates of publication of performance not of composition Contents 1 Publications by W H Auden 1 1 Books and selected pamphlets 1 1 1 Posthumous books 1 2 Anthologies edited by Auden 1 3 Film scripts and opera libretti 1 4 Non fiction 1 5 Edited selections of individual authors 1 6 Translations 1 7 Editions published after Auden s death 2 References 3 Further reading 4 External linksPublications by W H Auden editSee also Category Poetry by W H Auden Category Books by W H Auden Category Plays by W H Auden and Category Libretti by W H Auden In the list below works reprinted in the Complete Works of W H Auden are indicated by footnote references Books and selected pamphlets edit Poems London 1928 privately printed different contents from 1930 volume with the same title dedicated to Christopher Isherwood Poems London 1930 second edn seven poems substituted London 1933 includes poems and Paid on Both Sides A Charade 1 dedicated to Christopher Isherwood The Orators An English Study London 1932 verse and prose slightly revised edn London 1934 revised edn with new preface London 1966 New York 1967 dedicated to Stephen Spender The Dance of Death London 1933 play 1 dedicated to Robert Medley and Rupert Doone Poems New York 1934 contains Poems 1933 edition The Orators 1932 edition and The Dance of Death The Dog Beneath the Skin London New York 1935 play with Christopher Isherwood 1 dedicated to Robert Moody The Ascent of F6 London 1936 2nd edn 1937 New York 1937 play with Christopher Isherwood 1 dedicated to John Bicknell Auden Look Stranger London 1936 poems US edn On This Island New York 1937 dedicated to Erika Mann Spain London 1937 pamphlet poem Letters from Iceland London New York 1937 verse and prose with Louis MacNeice 2 dedicated to George Augustus Auden On the Frontier London 1938 New York 1939 play with Christopher Isherwood 1 dedicated to Benjamin Britten Selected Poems London 1938 selected by Auden from previously published work Education Today and Tomorrow London 1939 journalism with T C Worsley 2 Journey to a War London New York 1939 verse and prose with Christopher Isherwood 2 dedicated to E M Forster Another Time London New York 1940 poetry dedicated to Chester Kallman Some Poems London 1940 not selected by Auden The Double Man New York 1941 poems UK edn New Year Letter London 1941 Dedicated to Elizabeth Mayer For 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 Auden s mother The Collected Poetry of W H Auden New York 1945 includes new poems dedicated to Christopher Isherwood and Chester Kallman The Age of Anxiety A Baroque Eclogue New York 1947 London 1948 verse won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry dedicated to John Betjeman The Enchafed Flood New York 1950 London 1951 prose dedicated to Alan Ansen 3 Collected Shorter Poems 1930 1944 London 1950 similar to 1945 Collected Poetry dedicated to Christopher Isherwood and Chester Kallman Nones New York 1951 London 1952 poems dedicated to Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr Mountains 1954 pamphlet edition of a single poem included in The Shield of Achilles The Shield of Achilles New York London 1955 poems won the 1956 National Book Award for Poetry dedicated to Lincoln and Fidelma Kirstein The Old Man s Road New York 1956 pamphlet with poems all included in Homage to Clio W H Auden A Selection by the Author Harmondsworth 1958 New York 1959 as Selected Poetry of W H Auden includes some new revisions to previously published poems Homage to Clio New York London 1960 poems dedicated to E R and A E Dodds The Dyer s Hand New York 1962 London 1963 essays dedicated to Nevill Coghill 4 About the House New York London 1965 poems dedicated to Edmund and Elena Wilson Collected Shorter Poems 1927 1957 London 1966 New York 1967 dedicated to Christopher Isherwood and Chester Kallman Selected Poems London 1968 includes some new revisions to previously published poems Collected Longer Poems London 1968 New York 1969 Secondary Worlds London New York 1969 prose dedicated to Valerie Eliot 5 City Without Walls and Other Poems London New York 1969 dedicated to Peter Heyworth A Certain World A Commonplace Book New York London 1970 quotations with commentary dedicated to Geoffrey Gorer 6 Academic Graffiti London New York 1971 poems in memoriam Ogden Nash Epistle to a Godson and Other Poems London New York 1972 dedicated to Orlan Fox Forewords and Afterwords New York London 1973 essays dedicated to Hannah Arendt Thank You Fog Last Poems London New York 1974 dedicated to Michael and Marny Yates Posthumous books edit Note These are works that Auden did not intend to publish The Prolific and the Devourer 1939 prose unfinished book published in magazine form 1981 in book form New York 1993 7 Lectures on Shakespeare 1946 47 reconstructed and ed by Arthur Kirsch Princeton 2001 Anthologies edited by Auden edit The Poet s Tongue 2 vol and 1 vol edns with John Garrett London 1935 introduction reprinted 2 The Oxford Book of Light Verse Oxford 1938 introduction reprinted 2 dedicated to E R Dodds The Portable Greek Reader New York 1948 introduction reprinted 7 Poets of the English Language 5 vols with Norman Holmes Pearson New York 1950 London 1952 introduction reprinted 7 The Faber Book of Modern American Verse London 1956 US edn The Criterion book of Modern American Verse introduction reprinted 3 The Viking Book of Aphorisms with Louis Kronenberger New York 1964 UK edn The Faber Book of Aphorisms introduction reprinted 3 Nineteenth Century British Minor Poets New York 1966 UK edn Nineteenth Century Minor Poets 5 Film scripts and opera libretti edit Coal Face 1935 closing chorus for GPO Film Unit documentary 1 Negroes 1935 narrative for GPO Film Unit documentary 8 completed 1938 without Auden s participation as God s Chillun 9 Night Mail 1936 narrative for GPO Film Unit documentary not published separately except as a program note 1 The Way to the Sea 1936 narrative for Strand Films documentary 10 Paul Bunyan 1941 libretto for operetta by Benjamin Britten not published until 1976 11 The Rake s Progress 1951 with Chester Kallman libretto for an opera by Igor Stravinsky 11 Elegy for Young Lovers 1956 with Chester Kallman libretto for an opera by Hans Werner Henze 11 The Bassarids 1961 with Chester Kallman libretto for an opera by Hans Werner Henze based on The Bacchae of Euripides 11 Runner 1962 documentary film narrative for National Film Board of Canada 11 Love s Labour s Lost 1973 with Chester Kallman libretto for an opera by Nicolas Nabokov based on Shakespeare s play 11 Non fiction edit Gresham s School in Graham Greene ed The Old School Essays by Divers Hands London Jonathan Cape 1934 12 Edited selections of individual authors edit A Selection from the Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson New York 1944 UK edn Tennyson An Introduction and a Selection London 1946 introduction reprinted 7 Selected Prose and Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe New York 1950 rev edn 1956 introduction reprinted 7 The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard New York 1952 UK edn Kierkegaard Selected and Introduced by W H Auden London 1955 introduction reprinted 3 A Choice of De La Mare s Verse London 1963 introduction reprinted 4 Louis MacNeice Selected Poems London 1964 preface reprinted 5 George Gordon Lord Byron Selected Poetry and Prose New York 1966 introduction reprinted 5 G K Chesterton A Selection from His Non Fictional Prose London 1970 introduction reprinted 6 Translations edit The Magic Flute New York 1956 London 1957 with Chester Kallman English version of Emanuel Schikaneder s original German libretto to the Mozart opera Die Zauberflote dedicated to Anne and Irving Weiss 11 Don Giovanni New York 1961 with Chester Kallman English translation of Lorenzo da Ponte s original Italian libretto to the Mozart opera Goethe J W von Italian Journey tr by W H Auden and Elizabeth Mayer London New York 1963 introduction reprinted 4 The Elder Edda A Selection tr by W H Auden and Paul B Taylor London 1969 New York 1970 Editions published after Auden s death edit Collected Poems 1976 new edns 1991 2007 ed by Edward Mendelson Auden s final revisions The English Auden Poems Essays and Dramatic Writings 1927 1939 1977 ed by Edward Mendelson Selected Poems 1979 expanded edn 2007 ed by Edward Mendelson includes earlier versions and discarded poems Plays and Other Dramatic Writings 1927 1938 1989 first vol of The Complete Works of W H Auden ed by Edward Mendelson 1 Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings 1939 1973 1993 second vol of The Complete Works of W H Auden ed by Edward Mendelson 11 Tell Me the Truth About Love Ten Poems 1994 later UK edns have 15 poems Juvenilia Poems 1922 1928 1994 ed by Katherine Bucknell expanded edn 2003 As I Walked Out One Evening Songs Ballads Lullabies Limericks and Other Light Verse 1995 ed by Edward Mendelson Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse Volume I 1926 1938 1997 third vol of The Complete Works of W H Auden ed by Edward Mendelson 2 W H Auden Poems selected by John Fuller 2000 Prose Volume II 1939 1948 2002 fourth vol of The Complete Works of W H Auden ed by Edward Mendelson 7 The Sea and the Mirror A Commentary on Shakespeare s The Tempest 2003 ed by Arthur Kirsch Prose Volume III 1949 1955 2008 fifth vol of The Complete Works of W H Auden ed by Edward Mendelson 3 Prose Volume IV 1956 1962 2010 sixth vol of The Complete Works of W H Auden ed by Edward Mendelson 4 The Age of Anxiety 2011 ed by Alan Jacobs Prose Volume V 1963 1968 2015 seventh vol of The Complete Works of W H Auden ed by Edward Mendelson 5 Prose Volume VI 1969 1973 2015 eighth vol of The Complete Works of W H Auden ed by Edward 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2008 God s Chillun Colonial Film Retrieved 4 June 2014 Mitchell 1991 p 317 a b c d e f g h Auden W H and Chester Kallman ed by Edward Mendelson 1993 Libretti and other dramatic writings by W H Auden 1939 1973 Princeton Princeton University Press ISBN 0 691 03301 3 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link Bonnie Costello Rachel Galvin Auden at Work 2015 p 299Further reading editBibliographyBloomfield B C and Edward Mendelson 1972 W H Auden A Bibliography 1924 1969 Charlottesville University Press of Virginia ISBN 0 8139 0395 5 Post 1969 supplements to the item listed above are included in the following Auden W H ed by Katherine Bucknell and Nicholas Jenkins 1990 The Map of All My Youth early works friends and influences Auden Studies 1 Oxford Oxford University Press ISBN 0 19 812964 5 Auden W H ed by Katherine Bucknell and Nicholas Jenkins 1994 The Language of Learning and the Language of Love uncollected writings new interpretations Auden Studies 2 Oxford Oxford University Press ISBN 0 19 812257 8 Auden W H ed by Katherine Bucknell and Nicholas Jenkins 1995 In Solitude For Company W H Auden after 1940 unpublished prose and recent criticism Auden Studies 3 Oxford Oxford University Press ISBN 0 19 818294 5 External links edit Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title W H Auden bibliography amp oldid 1212228216, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
