Selected Works:
Books:
Poems - London, 1928; privately printed; different contents from 1930 volume with the same title - dedicated to Christopher Isherwood.
Poems - London, 1930; second ediiton, seven poems substituted, London, 1933; includes poems and Paid on Both Sides: A Charade - dedicated to Christopher Isherwood.
The Orators: An English Study - London, 1932, verse and prose; slightly revised ediiton, London, 1934; revised edition, with new preface, London, 1966; New York 1967 - dedicated to Stephen Spender.
The Dance of Death - London, 1933, play, dedicated to Robert Medley and Rupert Doone.
Poems - New York, 1934; contains Poems - 1933 edition, The Orators - 1932 edition, and The Dance of Death.
The Dog Beneath the Skin - London, New York, 1935; play, with Christopher Isherwood - dedicated to Robert Moody.
The Ascent of F6 - London, 1936; 2nd edition, 1937; New York, 1937; play, with Christopher Isherwood - dedicated to John Bicknell Auden.
Look, Stranger! - London, 1936, poems; US edition On This Island, New York, 1937 - dedicated to Erika Mann.
Spain - London, 1937; pamphlet poem.
Letters from Iceland - London, New York, 1937; verse and prose, with Louis MacNeice - dedicated to George Augustus Auden.
On the Frontier - London, 1938; New York 1939; play, with Christopher Isherwood - dedicated to Benjamin Britten.
Education: Today - and Tomorrow - London, 1939; journalism, with T. C. Worsley
Journey to a War - London, New York, 1939; verse and prose, with Christopher Isherwood, dedicated to E. M. Forster.
Another Time - London, New York 1940; poetry - dedicated to Chester Kallman.
The Double Man - New York, 1941, poems; UK edition New Year Letter, London, 1941 - Dedicated to Elizabeth Mayer.
For the Time Being - New York, 1944; London, 1945; two long poems: "The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare's “The Tempest", dedicated to James and Tania Stern, and "For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio", in memoriam Constance Rosalie Auden - Auden's mother.
The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden - New York, 1945; includes new poems - dedicated to Christopher Isherwood and Chester Kallman.
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue - New York, 1947; London, 1948; verse; won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry - dedicated to John Betjeman.
The Enchafèd Flood - New York, 1950; London, 1951; prose - dedicated to Alan Ansen
Collected Shorter Poems - 1930-1944 - London, 1950; similar to 1945 Collected Poetry - dedicated to Christopher Isherwood and Chester Kallman.
Nones - New York, 1951; London, 1952; poems - dedicated to Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr
The Shield of Achilles - New York, London, 1955; poems; won the 1956 National Book Award for Poetry - dedicated to Lincoln and Fidelma Kirstein.
The Old Man's Road - New York, 1956; pamphlet with poems, all included in Homage to Clio.
Homage to Clio - New York, London, 1960; poems - dedicated to E. R. and A. E. Dodds.
The Dyer's Hand - New York, 1962; London, 1963; essays - dedicated to Nevill Coghill.
About the House - New York, London, 1965; poems - dedicated to Edmund and Elena Wilson.
Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 - London, 1966; New York, 1967 - dedicated to Christopher Isherwood and Chester Kallman.
Collected Longer Poems - London, 1968; New York, 1969.
Secondary Worlds - London, New York, 1969; prose - dedicated to Valerie Eliot.
City Without Walls and Other Poems - London, New York, 1969 - dedicated to Peter Heyworth.
A Certain World: A Commonplace Book - New York, London, 1970; quotations with commentary - dedicated to Geoffrey Gorer.
Academic Graffiti - London, New York, 1971; poems - in memoriam Ogden Nash.
Epistle to a Godson and Other Poems - London, New York, 1972 - dedicated to Orlan Fox.
Forewords and Afterwords - New York, London, 1973; essays - dedicated to Hannah Arendt.
Thank You, Fog: Last Poems - London, New York, 1974 - dedicated to Michael and Marny Yates.
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Note: These are works that Auden did not intend to publish
"The Prolific and the Devourer" - 1939, prose; unfinished book; published in magazine form 1981, in book form, New York, 1993
Lectures on Shakespeare - 1946-47, reconstructed and ed. by Arthur Kirsch, Princeton, 2001.
Anthologies edited by Auden:
The Poet's Tongue - 2-vol and 1-vol edns., with John Garrett, London, 1935; introduction reprinted
The Oxford Book of Light Verse - Oxford, 1938; introduction reprinted - dedicated to E. R. Dodds.
The Portable Greek Reader - New York, 1948; introduction reprinted
Poets of the English Language - 5 vols., with Norman Holmes Pearson; New York, 1950; London, 1952; introduction reprinted
The Faber Book of Modern American Verse - London, 1956; US edition, The Criterion book of Modern American Verse.
The Viking Book of Aphorisms - with Louis Kronenberger; New York, 1964; UKedition. The Faber Book of Aphorisms.
Nineteenth-Century British Minor Poets - New York, 1966; UK edition. Nineteenth-Century Minor Poets
Film Scripts and Opera Libretti:
Night Mail - 1936, documentary film narrative, not published separately except as a program note
Paul Bunyan - 1941, libretto for operetta by Benjamin Britten; not published until 1976
The Rake's Progress - 1951, with Chester Kallman, libretto for an opera by Igor Stravinsky
Elegy for Young Lovers - 1961, with Chester Kallman, libretto for an opera by Hans Werner Henze
The Bassarids - 1961, with Chester Kallman, libretto for an opera by Hans Werner Henze based on The Bacchae of Euripides
Love's Labour's Lost - 1973, with Chester Kallman, libretto for an opera by Nicolas Nabokov, based on Shakespeare's play
Translations:
The Magic Flute - New York, 1956; London, 1957; with Chester Kallman, English version of Emanuel Schikaneder's original German libretto to the Mozart opera Die Zauberflöte - dedicated to Anne and Irving Weiss
Don Giovanni - New York, 1961; with Chester Kallman, English translation of Lorenzo da Ponte's original Italian libretto to the Mozart opera.
Goethe, J. W. von. Italian Journey, translation by W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer - London, New York, 1963.
The Elder Edda: A Selection, tr. by W. H. Auden and Paul B. Taylor - London, 1969; New York, 1970.
Editions published after Auden's death:
Collected Poems - 1976, new editions - 1991, 2007, edited by Edward Mendelson; Auden's final revisions.
The English Auden: Poems, Essays, and Dramatic Writings, 1927-1939 - 1977, edited by Edward Mendelson.
Selected Poems - 1979, expanded edition - 2007, edited. by Edward Mendelson; includes earlier versions and discarded poems.
Plays and Other Dramatic Writings, 1927-1938 - 1989, first volume of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson
Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings, 1939-1973 - 1993, second vol. of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson
Tell Me the Truth About Love: Ten Poems - 1994, later UK edns. have 15 poems.
Juvenilia: Poems 1922-1928 - 1994, edited by Katherine Bucknell; expanded edn. 2003.
As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks, and Other Light Verse - 1995, edited by Edward Mendelson.
Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse: Volume I, 1926-1938 - 1997, third volume of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson
W.H. Auden: Poems selected by John Fuller, - 2000.
Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948 - 2002, fourth vol. of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson
The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare's "The Tempest" - 2003, edited by Arthur Kirsch.
Prose, Volume III: 1949-1955 - 2008, fifth vol. of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson.
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