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W H Auden Bibliography


Books and selected pamphlets



Poems (London, 1928; privately printed; different contents from 1930 volume with the same title) 

Poems (London, 1930; second edn., seven poems substituted, London, 1933; 

  includes poems and Paid on Both Sides: A Charade

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) 

The Dance of Death (London, 1933, play)

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)

The Ascent of F6 (London, 1936; 2nd edn., 1937; New York, 1937; play, with Christopher Isherwood)

Look, Stranger! (London, 1936, poems; US edn., On This Island, New York, 1937) 

Spain (London, 1937; pamphlet poem). 

Letters from Iceland (London, New York, 1937; verse and prose, with Louis MacNeice)

On the Frontier (London, 1938; New York 1939; play, with Christopher Isherwood)

Education: Today - and Tomorrow (London, 1939; journalism, with T. C. Worsley)

Journey to a War (London, New York, 1939; verse and prose, with Christopher Isherwood)

Another Time (London, New York 1940; poetry)

The Double Man (New York, 1941, poems; UK edn., New Year Letter, London, 1941)

For the Time Being (New York, 1944; London, 1945; two long poems

The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden (New York, 1945; includes new poems) 

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (New York, 1947; London, 1948; verse

The Enchafèd Flood (New York, 1950; London, 1951; prose) 

Collected Shorter Poems, 1930-1944 (London, 1950; similar to 1945 Collected Poetry) 

Nones (New York, 1951; London, 1952; poems) 

The Shield of Achilles (New York, London, 1955; poems; 

The Old Man's Road (New York, 1956; pamphlet with poems, all included in Homage to Clio). 

Homage to Clio (New York, London, 1960; poems) 

The Dyer's Hand (New York, 1962; London, 1963; essays) 

About the House (New York, London, 1965; poems)

Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 (London, 1966; New York, 1967)

Collected Longer Poems (London, 1968; New York, 1969). 

Secondary Worlds (London, New York, 1969; prose) 

City Without Walls and Other Poems (London, New York, 1969) 

A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (New York, London, 1970; quotations with commentary) 

Academic Graffiti (London, New York, 1971; poems)

Epistle to a Godson and Other Poems (London, New York, 1972) 

Forewords and Afterwords (New York, London, 1973; essays) 

Thank You, Fog: Last Poems (London, New York, 1974)