Collected Poems

By W. H. Auden

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Collected Poems gathers the poetry W. H. Auden chose to preserve, edited by Edward Mendelson. It spans his career from the English poems of the 1920s and 1930s to his later American work, including such poems as "September 1, 1939" and "Musée des Beaux Arts."

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• Fareed Zakaria: “What books are on your night stand? ... Right now, I have three: a collection of columns by the great journalist Walter Lippmann, from the period around World War I (edited by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.); Dean Acheson's "Sketches From Life of Men I Have Known," the former secretary of state's portraits of some of his contemporaries; and W. H. Auden's "Collected Poems." They're all wonderfully written, and I can put any of them down after 15 minutes, sated and ready for bed.”