Juvenilia

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by W. H. Auden,

Edited by Katherine Bucknell

Princeton University Press

Due/Published July 1994, 336 pages, cloth

ISBN 069103415x

This collection includes over two hundred poems, most of them never published before, concluding with the with the contents of Auden's privately printed volume, Poems ( 1928 ). The poems are generously annotated with information on Auden's education, reading, literary concerns, and personal life. In her introduction, Katherine Bucknell traces important themes relating to the poet's entire career, and describes crucial but hitherto unknown aspects of his youth during his years at Gresham's School and at Christ Church in Oxford.