Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
Release : 1967
Genre : Poetry
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 by : Wystan Hugh Auden
Download or read book Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 written by Wystan Hugh Auden. This book was released on 1967. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection stops at the year nineteen-fifty-seven. In the following year I transferred my summer residence from Italy to Austria, so starting a new chapter in my life which is not yet finished. The poems included cover a span of thirty years, there are, if I've counted rightly, three hundred of them, I was twenty when I wrote the earliest, fifty when I wrote the latest: four nice round numbers. Besides, the volume looks alarmingly big already."--From the foreword.