Auden, W. H. Works

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Bumbleshoot: W.H. Auden - Twenty-eight poems by Auden. Includes many short poems.

Demon or Gift: from Later Auden - This, the first chapter from Edward Mendelson's book "Later Auden," analyses the poem "In Memory of W.B. Yeats."

The Dyer's Hand - A review of Auden's collection of essays, by the poet John Berryman.

Edward Lear - Auden's sonnet on this Victorian writer, at the Edward Lear Home Page.

Frank Kermode on Auden's Shakespeare - Auden's Lectures on Shakespeare (ed. Arthur Kirsch), reviewed for the London Review of Books by Frank Kermode.

Funeral Blues - Text, discussion of the correct title, and scans of the original published version of this Auden poem.

Horae Canonicae - Text of Auden's sequence of religious poems.

Lullaby - Text of Auden's poem. First lines: "Lay your sleeping head, my love/Human on my faithless arm."

Musée des Beaux Arts - Analysis of poem. First line: "About suffering they were never wrong." Includes Breughel's painting "The Fall of Icarus", which the poem refers to.

Narrator - The last speaking part of Auden's Christmas oratorio "For the Time Being."

Night Mail - Text of this song, written for the documentary movie "The Night Mail", on the British postal system.

Readings: Two Songs for Hedli Anderson - Text of two Auden poems, "Funeral Blues" and "Johnny".

Redeeming the Rake by David Schiff - Discussion of Stravinsky's Opera, "The Rake's Progress", for which Auden wrote the libretto.

Salon.com Audio: W. H. Auden - Recordings of Auden reading two poems, "Under Which Lyre" and "Law Like Love". Available in mp3 and RealMedia formats.

The Secret Agent - A famous if obscure early Auden poem.

A Selection of British Poetry: Auden - Many Auden poems, including "Canzone", "As We Like It", "The Labyrinth" and selections from "Songs and Musical Pieces"

The Shield of Achilles - Text of this frequently anthologized poem.

Song Texts - Texts of poems that have been set to music by Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten and others, including "Lullaby", "Nocturne" and "Elegy for JFK".

Under Which Lyre - Text of this poem, subtitled "A Reactionary Tract for the Times".

The Virtual Streetband - Words from W.H. Auden put to music with animations.

The Watershed - One of Auden's earliest poems.

W.H. Auden at the University of Dundee - Text of "In Praise of Limestone" and three short poems.