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Poems. S. H. S[pender], 1928. Auden's privately-printed first book, of which only about 30 copies were made on a hand-press and given to friends of the author. (Facsimile edition available from Books on Demand.)
Poems. Faber, 1930; 2nd edition, 1933. (The Random House edition, 1934, includes The Orators and The Dance of Death.)
The Orators. Faber, 1930; 2nd edition: 1934; 3rd edition:, 1966 and Random House, 1967.
On This Island. (British title: Look, Stranger!) Faber, 1936, and Random House, 1937. The Faber edition has been reprinted, 2001.
Spain. Faber, 1937 (also in Another Time).
Another Time. Faber and Random House, 1940.
The Double Man. (British title: New Year Letter.) Random House and Faber, 1941.
For the Time Being. Random House, 1944; Faber, 1945.
The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden. Random House, 1945 (includes new poems, 1941-44).
The Age of Anxiety. Random House, 1947; Faber, 1948.
Collected Shorter Poems, 1930-1944. Faber, 1950 (similar to The Collected Poetry, above).
Nones. Random House, 1951; Faber, 1952.
The Shield of Achilles. Random House and Faber, 1955.
Homage to Clio. Random House and Faber, 1960.
About the House. Random House, 1965; Faber, 1966.
Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957. Faber, 1966; Random House, 1967.
Collected Longer Poems. Faber, 1968; Random House, 1969.
City Without Walls. Faber, 1969; Random House, 1970.
Epistle to a Godson. Faber, 1972; Random House, 1972.
Thank You, Fog. Faber, 1974; Random House, 1974.
Plays
The Dance of Death. Faber, 1933.
The Dog Beneath the Skin. With Christopher Isherwood. Faber and Random House, 1935.
The Ascent of F6. With Christopher Isherwood. Faber, 1936; 2nd edition: 1936; American edition: Random House, 1936.
On the Frontier. With Christopher Isherwood. Faber, 1938; Random House, 1939.
Opera Libretti
Paul Bunyan. Music by Benjamin Britten. 1941.
The Rake's Progress. With Chester Kallman. Music by Igor Stravinsky. 1951.
Elegy for Young Lovers. With Chester Kallman. Music by Hans Werner Henze. 1961.
The Bassarids. With Chester Kallman. Music by Hans Werner Henze. 1966.
Auden and Kallman also translated Mozart's The Magic Flute (1956) and Don Giovanni (1961), and Goldoni's Arcifanfaro, King of Fools, as set by Dittersdorf (1962).
Travel Books in Prose and Verse
Letters From Iceland. With Louis MacNeice. Faber and Random House, 1937; 2nd edition: Faber, 1967, and Random House, 1969.
Journey to a War. With Christopher Isherwood. Faber and Random House, 1939; 2nd edition: Faber, 1973.
Prose
The Prolific and the Devourer. (Written in 1939.) Ecco Press, 1993.
The Enchafèd Flood. Random House, 1950; Faber, 1951.
The Dyer's Hand. Random House, 1962; Faber, 1963.
Secondary Worlds. Faber and Random House, 1969.
A Certain World: A Commonplace Book. Viking and Faber, 1970.
Forewords and Afterwords. Random House and Faber, 1973.
Lectures on Shakespeare, reconstructed and edited by Arthur Kirsch. Princeton University Press and Faber, 2001.
Writing available on the net
Commentaries
- The W.H. Auden Society (http://www.audensociety.org)
- A biography of Auden (http://www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/auden.htm)
- BBC Histories
- Island of Freedom
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