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Principal Works

*all are poetry, unless otherwise indicated

Poems. Privately printed, 1928.

Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1930; revised edition, 1933.

The Orators: An English Study. London: Faber & Faber, 1932.

The Dance of Death. London: Faber & Faber, 1933.

The Dog Beneath the Skin (verse drama, with Christopher Isherwood). London: Faber & Faber, 1935.

The Ascent of F6 (verse drama, with Christopher Isherwood). London: Faber & Faber, 1936.

Look, Stranger! London: Faber & Faber, 1936 (U.S. title: On This Island, New York: Random House, 1936).

Spain. London: Faber & Faber, 1937.

Letters from Iceland (verse and travel writing, with Louis MacNeice). London: Faber & Faber, 1937.

On the Frontier (verse drama, with Christopher Isherwood). London: Faber & Faber, 1938.

Journey to a War (verse and travel writing, with Christopher Isherwood). London: Faber & Faber, 1939.

Another Time. New York: Random House, 1940. Contains "As I Walked Out One Evening," "Funeral Blues," "Musée des Beaux Arts," and "The Unknown Citizen."

The Double Man. New York: Random House, 1941 (British title, with textual differences: New Year Letter, London: Faber & Faber, 1941).

For the Time Being. New York: Random House, 1944.

The Collected Poetry. New York: Random House, 1945.

The Age of Anxiety. New York: Random House, 1947.

Collected Shorter Poems 1930-1944. London: Faber & Faber, 1950.

The Enchafèd Flood (criticism). New York: Random House, 1950.

Nones. New York: Random House, 1951.

The Rake's Progress (libretto, with Chester Kallman). London and New York: Boosey & Hawkes, 1951.

The Shield of Achilles. New York: Random House, 1955.

Homage to Clio. New York: Random House, 1960.

Elegy for Young Lovers (libretto, with Chester Kallman). Mainz: Schott, 1961.

The Dyer's Hand (essays). New York: Random House, 1962.

Selected Essays. London: Faber & Faber, 1964.

About the House. New York: Random House, 1965.

The Bassarids (libretto, with Chester Kallman). Mainz: Schott, 1966.

Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957. London: Faber & Faber, 1966.

Collected Longer Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1968.

Secondary Worlds (essays). London: Faber & Faber, 1969.

City Without Walls. London: Faber & Faber, 1969.

A Certain World: A Commonplace Book. New York: Random House, 1970.

Academic Graffiti (light verse). London: Faber & Faber, 1971. Contains "James Watt."

Epistle to a Godson. New York: Random House, 1972.

Love's Labour's Lost (libretto, with Chester Kallman). Berlin: Bote & Bock, 1972.

Forewords and Afterwords (essays). New York: Random House, 1973.

Thank You, Fog. New York: Random House, 1974.

Collected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson. London: Faber & Faber, 1976.

Paul Bunyan (libretto). London: Faber & Faber, 1976.

The English Auden (early works). London: Faber & Faber, 1977.

Plays and Other Dramatic Writings 1928-1938 (with Christopher Isherwood). Ed. Edward Mendelson. Princeton University Press, 1988.

Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings 1939-1973 (with Chester Kallman). Ed. Edward Mendelson. Princeton University Press, 1993.

Auden as Didymus (essays). Mount Vernon, NY: Paul P. Appel, 1993.

The Prolific and the Devourer (philosophy). New York: Ecco, 1993.

Juvenilia: Poems 1922-1928. Ed. Katherine Bucknell. Princeton University Press, 1994.

Prose, and Travel Books in Prose and Verse. Ed. Edward Mendelson. Princeton University Press, 1997.

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Biography and Reminiscence

Humphrey Carpenter. W. H. Auden: A Biography. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1981.

Richard Davenport-Hines. Auden. London: William Heinemann, 1995.

Dorothy J. Farnan. Auden in Love. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.

Charles Osborne. W. H. Auden: The Life of a Poet. London: Eyre Methuen, 1979.

Stephen Spender, ed. W. H. Auden: A Tribute. London: George Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975.

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Selected Criticism

James D. Brophy. W. H. Auden. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.

John Fuller. A Reader's Guide to W. H. Auden. 1970.

Anthony Hecht. The Hidden Law: The Poetry of W. H. Auden. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Lucy McDiarmid. Auden's Apologies for Poetry. Princeton University Press, 1990.

Edward Mendelson. Early Auden. London: Faber & Faber, 1981.

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