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.

Publications 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

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).[7]
  • 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[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

Non-fiction

  • "Gresham's School" in Graham Greene (ed.) The Old School: Essays by Divers Hands (London: Jonathan Cape, 1934)[12]

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.[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

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).[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 Mendelson).[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Auden, 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. ISBN 0-691-06740-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Auden, W. H.; ed. by Edward Mendelson (1996). Prose and travel books in prose and verse, Volume I: 1926-1938. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-06803-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Auden, W. H.; ed. by Edward Mendelson (2008). Prose, Volume III: 1949-1955. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-13326-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. 1 2 3 4 Auden, W. H.; ed. by Edward Mendelson (2010). Prose, Volume IV: 1956-1962. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14755-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Auden, W. H.; ed. by Edward Mendelson (2015). Prose, Volume V: 1963-1968. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-151717.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. 1 2 3 Auden, W. H.; ed. by Edward Mendelson (2015). Prose, Volume VI: 1969-1973. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-164588.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Auden, W. H.; ed. by Edward Mendelson (2002). Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-08935-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ↑ Mitchell, Donald, ed. (1991). Letters from a Life: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 1 1929-39. London: Faber & Faber. ISBN 0-571-15221X., p. 316
  9. ↑ Rice, Tom (May 2008). "God's Chillun". Colonial Film. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  10. ↑ Mitchell (1991): p. 317
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ↑ Bonnie Costello, Rachel Galvin, Auden at Work (2015), p. 299

Further reading

Bibliography

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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