Edward Mendelson), The Complete Works of W.H. Arthur Kirsch), Lectures on Shakespeare (Princeton University Press 2019) Auden: Poems selected by John Fuller (Faber and Faber, 2009) Edward Mendelson), Selected Poems: revised edition (Faber and Faber, 2007) Auden, Collected Longer Poems (first published 1968 Random House, 2002) Auden, Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 (first published 1969 Faber & Faber, 2003) Jeremy Noel-Tod at the University of East Anglia Janet Montefiore at the University of Kent Senior Lecturer in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia Professor Emerita of 20th Century English Literature at the University of Kent Poet and Professor of English at University College London In his lifetime his work attracted high praise and intense criticism, and has found new audiences in the fifty years since his death, sometimes taking literally what he meant ironically. He witnessed the rise of totalitarianism in the austerity of that decade, travelling through Germany to Berlin, seeing Spain in the Civil War and China during its wars with Japan, often collaborating with Christopher Isherwood. As well as his personal life, he addressed suffering and confusion, and the moral issues that affected the wider public in the 1930s and tried to unpick what was going wrong in society and to understand those times. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and poetry of WH Auden (1907-1973) up to his departure from Europe for the USA in 1939.
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