List $15.95

Written & audio book performed by W.H. Auden - Edited by J.D. McClatchy - Unabridged Selections - 1 CASSETTE - 1 hour + companion book containing the text of the poems

Publisher, Random House Audiobooks (April 1999)

Random House Audiobooks' Voice of the Poet series feature the most distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings on cassette and a book with the text of the poetry, a bibliography, and a commentary by J. D. McClatchy, the poet and critic, who is the editor of The Yale Review.

Includes never-before-released recordings of the author reading from his own work.

W. H. auden (1907-1973) was one of the wittiest and most worldly of English poetry's great twentieth century masters. His work ranges from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the romantic. He is also, with his exhilarating lyrical power and his understanding of love and longing in all their sacred and profane guises, an exemplary champion of human wisdom in its encounter with the mysteries of experience. More than any other poet, Auden used his poetry as an instrument to study the massive forces, dramas, and upheavals of the twentieth century, and his work displays an astonishing range of voice and breath of concern.