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Between 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from the mandarin to the invigoratingly plain-spoken.
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.
- Sales Rank: #64477 in Books
- Published on: 1991-04-23
- Released on: 1991-04-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x 1.93" w x 5.13" l, 1.99 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 960 pages
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Between 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from the mandarin to the invigoratingly plain-spoken.
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.
About the Author
W. H. Auden was born in York, England, in 1907. His first book of poems was published in 1930, followed by a dozen volumes of shorter and longer poems. He collaborated on three plays with Christopher Isherwood and wrote books about his travels to Iceland (with Louis MacNeice) and wartime China (with Christopher Isherwood). In 1939 he settled in New York and became an American citizen in 1946. In collaboration with his companion Chester Kallman, he composed opera libretti for Igor Stravinsky, Hans Werner Henze, and Nicholas Nabokov. In 1972 Auden left his winter home in New York and returned to Oxford. He died in Vienna in 1973.
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Chapter 1
PART I
PAID ON BOTH SIDES
A Charade
To Cecil Day-Lewis
Characters
LintzgarthNattrass
John NowerAaron Shaw*****
DickSeth Shaw
George****The Spy—Seth’s Brother
WalterBernard
KurtSeth’s Mother***
CulleyAnne Shaw
Stephen**
Zeppel—John Nower’s Servant
Number Six
Sturton
Joan—Mother of John Nower
Trudy***
Father Christmas*
The Doctor
Bo****
Po*****
The Man-Woman
The Doctor’s Boy**
The Photographer*
The Announcer*
The Chief Guest*
The Butler*
The Chorus
The starred parts should be doubled
[No scenery is required. The stage should have a curtained-off recess. The distinction between the two hostile parties should be marked by different coloured arm-bands. the chorus, which should not consist of more than three persons, wear similar and distinctive clothing.]
[Enter trudy and walter.]
trudy: You’ve only just heard?
walter: Yes. A breakdown at the Mill needed attention, kept me all morning. I guessed no harm. But lately, riding at leisure, Dick met me, panted disaster. I came here at once. How did they get him?
trudy: In Kettledale above Colefangs road passes where high banks overhang dangerous from ambush. To Colefangs had to go, would speak with Layard, Jerry and Hunter with him only. They must have stolen news, for Red Shaw waited with ten, so Jerry said, till for last time unconscious. Hunter was killed at first shot. They fought, exhausted ammunition, a brave defence but fight no more.
walter: Has Joan been told yet?
trudy: Yes. It couldn’t be helped. Shock, starting birth pangs, caused a premature delivery.
walter: How is she?
trudy: Bad, I believe. But here’s the doctor.
[Enter doctor.]
Well, Doctor, how are things going?
doctor: Better thanks. We’ve had a hard fight, but it’s going to be all right. She’ll pull through and have a fine infant as well. My God, I’m thirsty after all that. Where can I get a drink?
walter: Here in the next room, Doctor.
[Exeunt. Back curtains draw. joan with child and corpse.]
joan:
Not from this life, not from this life is any
To keep; sleep, day and play would not help there,
Dangerous to new ghost; new ghost learns from many,
Learns from old termers what death is, where.
Who’s jealous of his latest company,
From one day to the next final to us,
A changed one, would use sorrow to deny
Sorrow, to replace death? Sorrow is sleeping thus.
Unforgetting is not today’s forgetting
For yesterday, not bedrid scorning,
But a new begetting,
An unforgiving morning.
[Baby squeals.]
O see, he is impatient
To pass beyond this pretty lisping time:
There’ll be some crying out when he’s come there.
[Back curtains close.]
chorus:
Can speak of trouble, pressure on men
Born all the time, brought forward into light
For warm dark moan.
Though heart fears all heart cries for, rebuffs with mortal beat
Skyfall, the legs sucked under, adder’s bite.
That prize held out of reach
Guides the unwilling tread,
The asking breath,
Till on attended bed
Or in untracked dishonour comes to each
His natural death.
We pass our days
Speak, man to men, easy, learning to point,
To jump before ladies, to show our scars:
But no,
We were mistaken, these faces are not ours.
They smile no more when we smile back:
Eyes, ears, tongue, nostrils bring
News of revolt, inadequate counsel to
An infirm king.
O watcher in the dark, you wake
Our dream of waking, we feel
Your finger on the flesh that has been skinned,
By your bright day
See clear what we were doing, that we were vile.
Your sudden hand
Shall humble great
Pride, break it, wear down to stumps old systems which await
The last transgression of the sea.
[Enter john nower and dick.]
john nower: If you have really made up your mind, Dick, I won’t try and persuade you to stop. But I shall be sorry to lose you.
dick: I have thought it all over and I think it is the best thing to do. My cousin writes that the ranch is a thoroughly good proposition. I don’t know how I shall like the Colonies but I feel I must get away from here. There is not room enough . . . but the actual moving is unpleasant.
john nower: I understand. When are you thinking of sailing?
dick: My cousin is sailing to-morrow. If I am going I am to join him at the Docks.
john nower: Right. Tell one of the men to go down to the post-office and send a wire for you. If you want anything else, let me know.
dick: Thank you.
[Exit dick. Enter zeppel.]
zeppel: Number Six wishes to see you, sir.
john nower: All right, show him in.
[Enter number six.]
Well, what is it?
number six: My area is Rookhope. Last night at Horse and Farrier, drank alone, one of Shaw’s men. I sat down friendly next till muzzed with drink and lateness he was blabbing. Red Shaw goes to Brandon Walls to-day, visits a woman.
john nower: Alone?
number six: No, sir. He takes a few. I got no numbers.
john nower: This is good news. Here is a pound for you.
number six: Thank you very much, sir.
[Exit number six.]
john nower: Zeppel.
zeppel: Sir.
john nower: Ask George to come here at once.
zeppel: Very good, sir.
[john gets a map out. Enter george.]
john nower: Red Shaw is spending the day at Brandon Walls. We must get him. You know the ground well, don’t you, George?
george: Pretty well. Let me see the map. There’s a barn about a hundred yards from the house. Yes, here it is. If we can occupy that without attracting attention it will form a good base for operations, commands both house and road. If I remember rightly, on the other side of the stream is a steep bank. Yes, you can see from the contours. They couldn’t get out that way, but lower down is marshy ground and possible. You want to post some men there to catch those who try.
john nower: Good. Who do you suggest to lead that party?
george: Send Sturton. He knows the whole district blindfold. He and I as boys fished all those streams together.
john nower: I shall come with you. Let’s see: it’s dark now about five. Fortunately there’s no moon and it’s cloudy. We’ll start then about half-past. Pick your men and get some sandwiches made up in the kitchen. I’ll see about the ammunition if you will remember to bring a compass. We meet outside at a quarter past.
[Exeunt. Enter kurt and culley.]
kurt: There’s time for a quick one before changing. What’s yours?
culley: I’ll have a sidecar, thanks.
kurt: Zeppel, one sidecar and one C.P.S. I hear Chapman did the lake in eight.
culley: Yes, he is developing a very pretty style. I am not sure though that Pepys won’t beat him next year if he can get out of that double kick. Thanks. Prosit.
kurt: Cheerio.
[Enter walter and trudy.]
walter: Two half pints, Zeppel, please. [To kurt.] Can you let me have a match? How is the Rugger going?
kurt: All right, thank you. We have not got a bad team this season.
walter: Where do you play yourself?
kurt: Wing 3Q.
walter: Did you ever see Warner? No, he’d be before your time. You remember him don’t you, Trudy?
trudy: He was killed in the fight at Colefangs, wasn’t he?
walter: You are muddling him up with Hunter. He was the best three- quarter I have ever seen. His sprinting was marvellous to watch.
zeppel (producing Christmas turkey): Not bad eh?
trudy (feeling it): Oh a fine one. For tomorrow’s dinner?
zeppel: Yes. Here, puss . . . gobble, gobble . . .
trudy (to walter): What have you got Ingo for Christmas?
walter: A model crane. Do you think he will like it?
trudy: He loves anything mechanical. He’s so excited he can’t sleep.
kurt: Come on, Culley, finish your drink. We must be getting along.
[To walter.] You must come down to the field on Monday and
see us.
walter: I will if I can.
[Exit kurt and culley.]
trudy: Is there any news yet?
walter: Nothing has come through. If things are going right they may be back any time now.
trudy: I suppose they will get him?
walter: It’s almost certain. Nower has waited long enough.
trudy: I am sick of this feud. What do we want to go on killing each other for? We are all the same. He’s trash, yet if I cut my finger it bleeds like his. But he’s swell, keeps double shifts working all night by flares: His mother squealed like a pig when he came crouching out.
Sometimes we read a sign, cloud in the sky,
The wet tracks of a hare, quicken the step
Promise the best day. But here no remedy
Is to be thought of, no news but the new death;
A Nower dragged out in the night, a Shaw
Ambushed behind the wall. Blood on the ground
Would welcome fighters. Last night at Hammergill
A boy was born fanged like a weasel. I am old,
Shall die before next winter, but more than once shall hear
The cry for help, the shooting round the house.
walter: The best are gone.
Often the man, alone shut, shall consider
The killings in old winters, death of friends.
Sitting with stranger shall expect no good.
Spring came, urging to ships, a casting off,
But one would stay, vengeance not done; it seemed
Doubtful to them that they would meet again.
Fording in the cool of the day they rode
To meet at crossroads when the year was over:
Dead is Brody, such a man was Maul.
I will say this not falsely; I have seen
The just and the unjust die in the day,
All, willing or not, and some were willing.
Here they are.
[Enter john nower, george, sturton and others. The three speak alternately.]
Day was gone, Night covered sky,
Black over earth, When we came there,
To Brandon Walls, Where Red Shaw lay
Hateful and sleeping, Unfriendly visit.
I wished to revenge, Quit fully
Who my father at Colefangs valley,
Lying in ambush, Cruelly shot,
With life for life.
Then watchers saw They were attacked,
Shouted in fear, A night alarm
To men asleep, Doomed men awoke,
Felt for their guns, Ran to the doors,
Would wake their master Who lay with woman,
Upstairs together, Tired after love.
He saw then There would be shooting
Hard fight.
Shot answered shot, Bullets screamed,
Guns shook, Hot in the hand,
Fighters lay, Groaning on ground
Gave up life. Edward fell,
Shot through the chest, First of our lot,
By no means refused fight, Stephen was good,
His first encounter, Showed no fear,
Wounded many.
Then Shaw knew We were too strong,
Would get away Over the moor,
Return alive, But found at the ford
Sturton waiting, Greatest gun-anger,
There he died, Nor any came,
Fighters home, Nor wives shall go
Smiling to bed. They boast no more.
[stephen suddenly gets up.]
stephen: A forward forward can never be a backward backward.
george: Help me put Stephen to bed, somebody. He got tight on the way back. Hullo, they’ve caught a spy.
voices outside: Look out. There he is. Catch him. Got you.
[Enter kurt and others with prisoner.]
kurt: We found this chap hiding in an outhouse.
john nower: Bring him here. Who are you?
stephen: I know him. I saw him once at Eickhamp. He’s Seth Shaw’s brother.
john nower: He is, is he. What do you come here for? You know what we do to spies. I’ll destroy the whole lot of you. Take him out.
spy: You may look big, but we’ll get you one day, Nower.
[Exeunt all but john nower, stephen following.]
stephen: Don’t go, darling.
[john nower sits. A shot outside followed by cheers.]
[Enter zeppel.]
zeppel: Will you be wanting anything more to-night, sir?
john nower: No, that will be all thank you.
zeppel: Good night, sir.
john nower:
Always the following wind of history
Of others’ wisdom makes a buoyant air
Till we come suddenly on pockets where
Is nothing loud but us; where voices seem
Abrupt, untrained, competing with no lie
Our fathers shouted once. They taught us war,
To scamper after darlings, to climb hills,
To emigrate from weakness, find ourselves
The easy conquerors of empty bays:
But never told us this, left each to learn,
Hear something of that soon-arriving day
When to gaze longer and delighted on
A face or idea be impossible.
Could I have been some simpleton that lived
Before disaster sent his runners here:
Younger than worms, worms have too much to bear.
Yes, mineral were best: could I but see
These woods, these fields of green, this lively world
Sterile as moon.
chorus:
The Spring unsettles sleeping partnerships,
Foundries improve their casting process, shops
Open a further wing on credit till
The winter. In summer boys grow tall
With running races on the froth-wet sand,
War is declared there, here a treaty signed;
Here a scrum breaks up like a bomb, there troops
Deploy like birds. But proudest into traps
Have fallen. These gears which ran in oil for week
By week, needing no look, now will not work;
Those manors mortgaged twice to pay for love
Go to another.
O how shall man live
Whose thought is born, child of one farcical night,
To find him old? The body warm but not
By choice, he dreams of folks in dancing bunches,
Of tart wine spilt on home-made benches,
Where learns, one drawn apart, a secret will
Restore the dead; but comes thence to a wall.
Outside on frozen soil lie armies killed
Who seem familiar but they are cold.
Now the most solid wish he tries to keep
His hands show through; he never will look up,
Say “I am good”. On him misfortune falls
More than enough. Better where no one feels,
The out-of-sight, buried too deep for shafts.
[Enter father christmas. He speaks to the audience.]
father christmas: Ladies and Gentlemen: I should like to thank you all very much for coming here to-night. Now we have a little surprise for you. When you go home, I hope you will tell your friends to come and bring the kiddies, but you will remember to keep this a secret, won’t you? Thank you. Now I will not keep you waiting any longer.
[Lights. A trial. john nower as the accuser. The spy as accused. joan as his warder with a gigantic feeding bottle. father christmas as president, the rest as jury, wearing school caps.]
father christmas: Is there any more evidence?
john nower: Yes. I know we have and are making terrific sacrifices, but we cannot give in. We cannot betray the dead. As we pass their graves can we be deaf to the simple eloquence of their inscriptions, those who in the glory of their early manhood gave up their lives for us? No, we must fight to the finish.
father christmas: Very well. Call the witness.
[Enter bo.]
bo:
In these days during the migrations, days
Freshening with rain reported from the mountains,
By loss of memory we are reborn,
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285 of 303 people found the following review helpful.
A collected poems, NOT a complete poems
By N. Dorward
There are two separate matters to consider here: the nature of this volume of Auden's collected poems, & the poetry itself. To tackle the first issue: this is not a _Complete_ but a _Collected Poems_, & this is a crucial difference. Auden was a perpetual reviser & assembled his canon with care. As with Robert Lowell his revisions are sometimes bewildering attempts to remake himself & his work in a very public manner. Auden grew to hate many of his best & most famous poems, notably "Sir, no man's enemy", "September 1, 1939" & "Spain 1937", & these are all excluded here, along with countless others. Late in his career Auden massively revised & pruned his canon, a project that was apparently prompted by his horror at the unprincipled use of his most famous line ("We must love one another or die") by Lyndon B Johnson in a notorious 1964 t.v. ad. (He was right to distrust that line's easy quotability: in the wake of Sep 11th the poem has enjoyed renewed popularity, which is pretty bizarre for a poem with lines like "Out of the mirror they stare, / Imperialism's face / And the international wrong.") Thus this volume presents a drastically lopsided view of Auden's work, & for this reason I cannot recommend it to anyone as an introduction to Auden's work. Nearly half of this book's 927 pages is taken up by work from the late 1940s up to Auden's death in 1973, & only the most ardent admirers of Auden will be able to find much of value in the final few hundred pages, facile, prolix & chatty verse which greatly disappointed Auden's contemporaries in his lifetime & which reads no better now. Anyone actually interested in the poetry that made Auden an important & influential poet should turn to the _Selected Poems_ & _The English Auden_. The former reprints the earliest printed texts of poems; the latter the texts as they stood when Auden left for the USA. This is an important distinction, especially for one of his most famous poems, "Spain". In the _Selected_ this appears in the 1937 version, which contains a stanza referring to the need to commit "the necessary murder". Orwell viciously attacked this line in a pair of essays, dishonestly distorting it into an apologia for Stalinist purges in "Inside the Whale". Auden, probably in response to the earlier of the two essays, altered the stanza in the 1940 version (entitled "Spain, 1937"), & eventually deleted the poem from his oeuvre. Auden nonetheless (rightly) defended the original version of the line, arguing that it was an honest attempt to speak of the possibility of a "just war", against the absolutist pacificist position that all wars are wrong, while nonetheless not downplaying the brutality of war.
About the poetry I can't say enough within the space of a brief review. Auden is probably the most influential English-language poet of the 20th century, & depending on your perspective must take much of the credit or blame for the midcentury retreat in the UK & US from the modernist & avantgarde styles of the early 20th century. (For good polemical histories of this shift, take a look at Jed Resula's _The American Poetry Wax Museum_ & Keith Tuma's _Fishing by Obstinate Isles_.) Auden was probably the most technically accomplished poet of the century, & yet this is not enough: by the end the verse fell into an obsessively genial & cozy facility carefully gutted of the urgency of his earlier work. His canon is still rather in need of a strongly revisionist survey: his most famous poems are sometimes justly so (the sublime "Lullaby", one of the century's great love poems) and sometimes in need of demotion ("Musee des Beaux Arts" for instance opens with one of the most fatuous lines in all of modern poetry: "About suffering they were never wrong, / The Old Masters."; & the elegy for Freud is like other of Auden's poems disfigured by nursery-talk & condescension). This volume makes me ultimately rather sad, that a poet with such enormous promise (the work he wrote in his early 20s is still utterly astonishing in its accomplishment & daring) never quite made good on it, & even came to hate much of his own best work. Turn to the _Selected Poems_ to get a better measure of what Auden was as a writer.
24 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent Work, with Some Minor Reservations
By S. Schuler
This is a volume for readers who already know that they enjoy Auden's poetry. The editor Edward Mendelson explains that, in calling the book the "Collected Poems," he means that the book includes all the poems Auden wanted to retain in his canon, in their final (sometimes revised) forms. As another reviewer (N. Dorward) warns, that means some popular poems have been left out. But I also think Dorward exaggerates. The number of poems Auden excised from his canon are not "countless," but perfectly countable. And the number of poems excised which readers actually care about is smaller still. In fact, there are really only three poems notably absent from the canon, which Dorward names: "Sir, no man's enemy," "Spain 1937," and "September 1, 1939." These poems are available in both _The English Auden_ and the _Selected Poems_, also edited by Mendelson.
The matter of revision is more serious, but what was a responsible editor to do? Mendelson might have printed both original and revised versions, but the volume is already over 900 pages, and most readers don't even notice the minor tinkering Auden sometimes did with wording. (We may notice that Auden deleted stanzas from "Summer Night" and "In Memory of W. B. Yeats," but how many Auden fans are aware that "Lullaby" was lightly revised? And who is to say that the revisions were always unwarranted?) Or, Mendelson might have added a "notes" section indicating where Auden made changes after initial publication. Or, he could have added the excised poems in an appendix. None of these solutions is really suitable given the aims of the volume. There had to be a volume that represented the author's final wishes about his works, and this is it. Don't we all wish we had such a volume from Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth, however we might have disagreed with their judgment in any given case?
The volume does feature some minor annoyances. I can discern no rationale in the order in which the poems are printed. Why are they not printed either (a) in the order in which they were printed in Auden's books, or (b) chronologically by order of composition, or at least group them by year? I also must insist that the paperback binding is absolutely unsuitable. Because of the sheer number of pages, opening the volume without breaking the spine is impossible. The binding of my copy fell apart after a year of light use, and is now in several pieces which I refuse to discard because they contain all my notes. I would have been glad to spend an extra $5 or $10 for a hardback copy.
For those reviewers who frankly dislike Auden, I would like to attempt a few replies:
1. No poet is to everyone's taste, and it is perfectly legitimate to state, "if you prefer authors X and Y, then you are likely to hate Auden." But please state your expectations and presuppositions. It is no help to us if you merely say "I don't like Auden," unless we know what sorts of poetry you DO like. I would say that if you enjoy poets like Ben Jonson, Donne, Swift, Pope, and R. Browning, you will probably like Auden. But if you prefer poets like Shelley, Whitman, and Dylan Thomas, you are likely to be cool about Auden. Of course you may happen like any combination of poems or poets, but there are usually patterns in any given reader's literary tastes. I don't often find a reader who is equally enthusiastic about both Shelley and Auden.
2. If you want to discover a poet, a "Collected Poems" volume is not the place to start, unless the poet's total output is unusually small (as with Hopkins and T. S. Eliot). Better to provisionally trust an editor's judgment and pick up a Selected Poems volume instead. Auden wrote many unmemorable poems. While it is valuable to read any good author's collected works, I wouldn't recommend trying to read all the poems Auden ever wrote unless you already know that you like Auden.
3. I am at a loss to respond to those who find no depth in Auden. True, he does not often wear his politics or his religion on his sleeve. And he often speaks with his tongue in his cheek, so a reader with no ear for irony is bound to be frequently disappointed. He tends toward abstraction and is not a particularly "visual" poet. As a thinker, Auden tends to be more philosophical than spiritual, and he is almost never "devotional," though he was also capable of writing perfectly frivolous poems. I don't blame a reader who can't find depth in a poem like "Night Mail" or even "On This Island," but if you can't find depth in "Herman Melville," "In Praise of Limestone," or the "Horae Canonicae" sequence, may I gently suggest that you need to learn how to really read a poem ?
39 of 42 people found the following review helpful.
Nary a disappointment
By Shaun
Auden is at once one of the most interesting and heartfelt poets of the 20th Century, whilst being quite underrated as one of the world's best. This volume does an exceptional job in capturing Auden's works in the way that he himself wanted them to be seen. While there are a multitude of purists who cannot abide by any poet's natural tendency to revise his works as life experiences mold his perspective, that Mendelson made the relatively bold decision to publish the augmented Auden is quite refreshing, in my view. These are the works of a man who transgressed the need for set structures, and didn't sacrifice substance for the sake of style. In essence, his poetry was the truest expression of his ideals.
In regards to the book itself, it was tastefully put together, and is a definite asset to any poetry collection. The font and paper stock are smooth and refined, making the poetry easy to read in varying degrees of light. The poems are arranged in a roughly chronological order...once again, the way that Auden himself preferred.
Considering that I own a number of old volumes of Auden's poetry --including first editions-- I can assure any potential buyer that Mendelson took no liberties with this volume. I wish other collections could claim the same.
"Ah, to find a book of a certain Wystan Hugh,
Is to find a gem in a field of residue;
It has been a long time coming, but in my hands I hold
A paper book of Auden, worth its weight in gold"
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