It's interesting: I never got deeply into later Auden so I have the
Random House The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden (copyright 1945),
which is pretty okay, I think, up to 'For the Time Being'.
For a course back in the 60s, as I recall....
Doug
On 25-Apr-09, at 2:18 PM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
>> Frankly, the textual problems of the Auden canon are beyond belief.
>>
>> Robin
>
> Actually, the textual problems of Auden (as compared with Sir Thomas
> Wyatt) are less beyond belief than hysterically funny.
>
> They can be tracked, but the track tends to overlay Auden's revisons
> and excisions with Mendelson's editorial judgments.
>
> The end result is a baroque curnucipia of ... delights.
>
> :-(((
>
> R.
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