Male : Homosexual Poet. Married Erika Mann in 1935. Travelled extensively in Europe, Iceland and China in 1930s. Fought in Spanish Civil War. Naturalised American 1938

Nationality : English Place of Birth : York

Date of Birth : 1907 Date of Death : 1973 Age : 66

Other Work : Professor of Poetry, Oxford Univ 1956-61

Education : Greshams School, Holt & & Christ's Church, Oxford

All Faber unless stated
1923-1930
Public School Verse : An Anthology, Vol IV 1923-24
[Auden's first appearance in print. He contributed the poem "Woods in Rain" by W H Arden ? ]
(In) Oxford Poetry 1928 (1928 Basil Blackwell)
Poems (1928 Hand printed by Stephen Spender) - 30 copies
Poems (1930)
[A UK first sold at auction in 1999 for £520]

1930-1935
The Orators (1932)
The Dance of Death (1933)
The Witnesses (1933 PP) - 20 copies. Drawings by Gwen Raverat
Poem (1933 PP) - 22 copies
Two Poems (1935 PP) - 22 copies
Two Poems (1934 Random House, US)
The Dog Beneath the Skin, or Where is Francis ? (1935) - with Isherwood
Our Hunting Fathers (1935 PP) - Ltd 22 copies
(Chosen by) The Poet's Tongue : An Anthology (1935 Bell) - with John Garrett
Sonnet (1935 PP) - Ltd 22 copies

1936-1940
The Ascent of F6 (1936) - play with Isherwood
Look Stranger! (1936) (2001 Faber £8.99)
Spain (1937)
(In) New Verse 1937 (1937, November. London) - entire issue devoted to Auden
Spain (1937 Hours Press) - Ltd Ed 100 copies
Letters from Iceland (1937) - with Louis MacNeice
Night Mail (1938 GPO) - broadside
[Filmed in 1936]
Selected Poems (1938)
The Sportsmen : A Parable (1938 New Verse, London)
On the Frontier (1938) - with Isherwood
Education Today and Tomorrow (1939 Hogarth Press) - pamphlet with T C Worsley. 1520 printed
Journey to a War (1939) - with Isherwood
Another Time (1940 7/6) (1940 Random House)
[An inscribed US first sold at auction in 1999 for £1495]
Some Poems (1940)

1941-1950
New Year Letter (1941)
The Double Man (1941 Random House)
Three Songs for St cecilia's Day (1941 PP in NY) - 250
Hymn to St Cecilia (1942 Winthrop Rogers) - music by B Britten, Words by Auden
The Sea and the Mirror (1945)
The Collected Poetry (1945 Random House)
For the Time Being (1945)
The Age of Anxiety : A Baroque Eclogue (1948)

1951-1955
Collected Shorter Poems (1950)
The Enchanted Flood, or the Romantic Iconography of the Sea (1950 Random House)
(1951) - lectures
Nones (1951 Random House) (1952)
Mountains (1954) - Edward Bawden
The Shield of Achilles (1955 10/6) (1955 Random House)

1956-1960
The Old Man's Road (1956 Voyages Press, NY) - Ltd Ed 750
Making, Knowing and Judging : An Inaugural Lecture (1956 Clarendon Press, OUP)
(Ed) The Faber Book of Modern American Verse (1957 Faber 21/-)
The Magic Flute (1957) - libretto with Chester Kallman
W H Auden - A Selection by the Author (1958 Penguin) - pb
Goodbye to the Mezzogiorno (1958 Milan) - 1000 numbered
Homage to Clio (1960 US) (1960)

1961-1970
Van Gogh : A Self Portrait (1961 T & H) - selected by Auden
Elegy for Young Lovers : Opera in 3 Acts (1961 Schott, Mainz) - libretto with Chester Kallman
The Dyer's Hand (1962)
Louis MacNeice : A Memorial Address (1963 PP for Faber) - 250
Selected Essays (1964)
About the House (1966)
The Bassarids (1966 Schott, Mainz) - libretto with Chester Kallman
Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 (1966)
Selected Poems (1966)
A Gobble Poem (1967 Fuck Books, London)
Collected Longer Poems (1968)
Secondary Worlds (1968 Random House) (1969)
City Without Walls (1969 Faber 20/-)
Sonnet (1969 Imprimerie Du Trocadero, Frederic Prokosch, Paris) - 6pp
A Certain World (1970 Viking NY) (1971)

AFTER 1971
Academic Graffiti (1972)
Epistle to A Godson & Other Poems (1972)
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Poems and Lithographs (1974 British Museum)
Thank You, Fog (1974)
Poems (1974 Petersburg Press, NY) - lithographs by Henry Moore
Collected Poems (1976)
The English Auden (1977)
Sue (1977 Sycamore Broadsheet 23)
Selected Poems (1979 Faber)
Cabaret Songs (1980 Faber Music) - 4 poems with piano accompaniment by Benjamin Britten
Norse Poems (1981 Athlone Press £7.95) - with Paul taylor
(Ed by Katherine Bucknell)Juvenilia : Poems 1922-1928 (1994 Faber £25)
As I walked Out one Evening : Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks & Other Light Verse
(1995 Faber £12.99)
(Ed) Edward Mendelson : W H Auden - Prose 1926-1938 (1997 Faber £40)
(Ed) Edward Mendelson : W H Auden - Prose Vol II 1938-1948 (2002 Faber £30)
The Sea and the Mirror (2003 Princeton £17.95) - edited by Arthur Kirsch

READING
Francis Scarfe : W H Auden (1949 Lyrebird Press, Monaco)
John Fuller : A Reader's Guide to W H Auden (1970 Thames & Hudson)
B C Bloomfield & E Mendelson : W H Auden - A Bibliography 1924-69 (1973 Virginia UP)
Samuel Hynes : The Auden Generation - Literature & Politics in England in the 1930s (1976 London)
Humphrey Carpenter : W H Auden - A Biography (1981 Allen & Unwin £12.50)
Richard Davenport-Hines : Auden (1995 Heinemann £20)
(Ed) Katherine Bucknell & Nicholas Jenkins : In Solitude, for Company - W H Auden after 1940
(1995 OUP £40)
Thekla Clark : Wystan & Chester - A Personal Memoir of Auden & Chester Kallman
(1995 Faber £12.99)
John Fuller : W H Auden - A Commentary (1998 Faber £30)