Poetry Afternoons with lecturer Michael King: W. H. Auden
Schedule
Wed Oct 02 2024 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
1 Holywell Hill | St Albans, EN
About this Event
We are delighted to announce our next Poetry Lecture Workshop will explore Selected Poems by W. H. Auden, revised and edited by Edward Mendleson.
Tea and coffee will be provided throughout the session.
About the book~
Edward Mendelson has significantly expanded his authoritative, chronological ordered edition of Auden's Selected Poems (first published in 1979), adding twenty items to the hundred in the original edition, and broadening the focus to reflect the wealth of forms, the rhetorical and tonal range, and the variousness of content in Auden's poetry, in the confines of one volume. In particular, there are newly included examples of Auden's mastery of light verse: the self-descriptive sequence of haiku called 'Profiles', the barbed wartime quatrains of 'Leap Before You Look', or 'Funeral Blues' itself. Also included are brief notes explaining references that may have become obscure, and a revised introduction drawing on recent additions to Auden scholarship.
Where is it happening?
1 Holywell Hill, 1 Holywell Hill, St Albans, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 9.38 to GBP 28.33