This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden's Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the
hundred in the original edition broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of
form rhetoric tone and content in Auden's work. Newly included are such favorites as Funeral
Blues” and other works that represent Auden's lighter comic side giving a fuller picture of
the range of his genius. Also new are brief notes explaining references that may have become
obscure to younger generations of readers and a revised introduction that draws on recent
additions to knowledge about Auden. As in the original edition the new Selected Poems makes
available the preferred original versions of some thirty poems that Auden revised later in life
making it the best source for enjoying the many facets of Auden's art in one volume.
