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W. H. Auden bibliography

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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.

Publications by W. H. Auden

{{See also|Category:Poetry by W. H. Auden|Category:Books by W. H. Auden|Category:Plays by W. H. Auden|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=

  • 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{{cite book

| last = Auden

| first = W. H. and Christopher Isherwood; ed. by Edward Mendelson

| title = Plays and other dramatic writings by W. H. Auden, 1928-1938

| publisher = Princeton University Press

| location = Princeton

| year = 1988

| isbn = 0-691-06740-6

| url = https://archive.org/details/playsotherdramat0000aude

}}) (dedicated to Christopher Isherwood).

| last = Auden

| first = W. H.; ed. by Edward Mendelson

| title = Prose and travel books in prose and verse, Volume I: 1926-1938

| publisher = Princeton University Press

| location = Princeton

| year = 1996

| isbn = 0-691-06803-8}} (dedicated to George Augustus Auden).

==Posthumous books==

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).{{cite book

| last = Auden

| first = W. H.; ed. by Edward Mendelson

| title = Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948

| publisher = Princeton University Press

| location = Princeton

| year = 2002

| isbn = 0-691-08935-3}}

  • Lectures on Shakespeare (1946–47, reconstructed and ed. by Arthur Kirsch, Princeton, 2001).

=Anthologies edited by Auden=

  • The Poet's Tongue (2-vol and 1-vol edns., with John Garrett, London, 1935; introduction reprinted).
  • The Oxford Book of Light Verse (Oxford, 1938; introduction reprinted) (dedicated to E. R. Dodds).
  • The Portable Greek Reader (New York, 1948; introduction reprinted).
  • Poets of the English Language (5 vols., with Norman Holmes Pearson; New York, 1950; London, 1952; introduction reprinted).
  • The Faber Book of Modern American Verse (London, 1956; US edn., The Criterion book of Modern American Verse); introduction reprinted.
  • The Viking Book of Aphorisms (with Louis Kronenberger; New York, 1964; UK edn., The Faber Book of Aphorisms); introduction reprinted.
  • Nineteenth-Century British Minor Poets (New York, 1966; UK edn. Nineteenth-Century Minor Poets).

=Film scripts and opera libretti=

  • Coal Face (1935, closing chorus for GPO Film Unit documentary).
  • Negroes (1935, narrative for GPO Film Unit documentary);{{cite book

| editor-last = Mitchell

| editor-first = Donald | title = Letters from a Life: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 1 1929-39| publisher = Faber & Faber| location = London

| year = 1991

| isbn = 0-571-15221X}}, p. 316 completed 1938 (without Auden's participation) as God's Chillun.{{cite web

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| first =Tom

| authorlink =

| title =God's Chillun

| publisher =Colonial Film

| date =May 2008

| url =http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/30

| format =

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| accessdate = 4 June 2014

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| last = Auden

| first = W. H. and Chester Kallman; ed. by Edward Mendelson

| title = Libretti and other dramatic writings by W. H. Auden, 1939–1973

| publisher = Princeton University Press

| location = Princeton

| year = 1993

| isbn = 0-691-03301-3

| url = https://archive.org/details/librettiotherdra00aude

}}

=Non-fiction=

  • "Gresham's School" in Graham Greene (ed.) The Old School: Essays by Divers Hands (London: Jonathan Cape, 1934)Bonnie Costello, Rachel Galvin, Auden at Work (2015), p. 299

=Edited selections of individual authors=

  • A Selection from the Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (New York, 1944; UK edn. Tennyson: An Introduction and a Selection, London, 1946); introduction reprinted.
  • Selected Prose and Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe (New York, 1950; rev. edn., 1956); introduction reprinted.
  • The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard (New York, 1952; UK edn., Kierkegaard: Selected and Introduced by W. H. Auden, London, 1955); introduction reprinted.
  • A Choice of De La Mare's Verse (London, 1963); introduction reprinted.
  • Louis MacNeice, Selected Poems (London, 1964); preface reprinted.
  • George Gordon, Lord Byron, Selected Poetry and Prose (New York, 1966); introduction reprinted.
  • G. K. Chesterton: A Selection from His Non-Fictional Prose (London, 1970); introduction reprinted.

=Translations=

=Editions published after Auden's death=

  • 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).
  • Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings, 1939-1973 (1993, second vol. of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, ed. by Edward Mendelson).
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • 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).{{cite book

| last = Auden

| first = W. H.; ed. by Edward Mendelson

| title = Prose, Volume III: 1949-1955

| publisher = Princeton University Press

| location = Princeton

| year = 2008

| isbn = 978-0-691-13326-3

| url-access = registration

| url = https://archive.org/details/trent_0116405823828

}}

  • Prose, Volume IV: 1956-1962 (2010, sixth vol. of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, ed. by Edward Mendelson).{{cite book

| last = Auden

| first = W. H.; ed. by Edward Mendelson

| title = Prose, Volume IV: 1956-1962

| publisher = Princeton University Press

| location = Princeton

| year = 2010

| isbn = 978-0-691-14755-0}}

  • 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).{{cite book

| last = Auden

| first = W. H.; ed. by Edward Mendelson

| title = Prose, Volume V: 1963-1968

| publisher = Princeton University Press

| location = Princeton

| year = 2015

| isbn = 978-0-691-151717}}

  • Prose, Volume VI: 1969-1973 (2015, eighth vol. of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, ed. by Edward Mendelson).{{cite book

| last = Auden

| first = W. H.; ed. by Edward Mendelson

| title = Prose, Volume VI: 1969-1973

| publisher = Princeton University Press

| location = Princeton

| year = 2015

| isbn = 978-0-691-164588}}

References

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Further reading

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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}}.

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