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A Selection of British Poetry: Auden
Many Auden poems, including "Canzone", "As We Like It", "The Labyrinth" and selections from "Songs and Musical Pieces"
http://www.daimi.au.dk/~sorsha/lit/WHAuden.html
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As I Walked Out One Evening
Text at the University of Calgary.
http://www.ras.ucalgary.ca/~gibson/poems/auden1.html
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Bumbleshoot: W.H. Auden
Twenty-eight poems by Auden. Includes many short poems.
http://members.tripod.com/~bumbleshoot/poetry/auden.html
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Demon or Gift: from Later Auden
This, the first chapter from Edward Mendelson's book "Later Auden," analyses the poem "In Memory of W.B. Yeats."
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/mendelson-auden.html
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Edward Lear
Auden's sonnet on this Victorian writer, at the Edward Lear Home Page.
http://edwardlear.tripod.com/auden.html
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Frank Kermode on Auden's Shakespeare
Auden's Lectures on Shakespeare (ed. Arthur Kirsch), reviewed for the London Review of Books by Frank Kermode.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n04/kerm2304.htm
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Funeral Blues
Text of this popular Auden poem. First line: "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone."
http://alt.venus.co.uk/weed/writings/poems/whafb.htm
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Horae Canonicae
Text of Auden's sequence of religious poems.
http://spintongues.vladivostok.com/auden9eng.htm
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In Time of War/Sonnets from China
Full text of Auden's 1938 sonnet sequence.
http://home.earthlink.net/~ostomo/china.html
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Law Like Love
Text of this Auden poem. First line: "Law, say the gardeners, is the sun".
http://www.crocker.com/~slinberg/poems/auden/lawlikelove.html
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Lullaby
Text of Auden's poem. First lines: "Lay your sleeping head, my love/Human on my faithless arm."
http://www.palace.net/~llama/poetry/lullaby
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Musée des Beaux Arts
Analysis of poem. First line: "About suffering they were never wrong." Includes Breughel's painting "The Fall of Icarus", which the poem refers to.
http://poetrypages.lemon8.nl/life/musee/museebeauxarts.htm
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Narrator
The last speaking part of Auden's Christmas oratorio "For the Time Being."
http://home.uchicago.edu/~narusso/m/narrator.html
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Night Mail
Text of this song, written for the documentary movie "The Night Mail", on the British postal system.
http://www.newearth.demon.co.uk/poems/lyric206.htm
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O who can ever gaze his fill
Text of Auden's song.
http://www.concentric.net/~Wkiernan/text/dance.html
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Poetry Page - Auden
Some poems, including "Fish in the unruffled lakes."
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/2601/auden.html
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Readings: Two Songs for Hedli Anderson
Text of two Auden poems, "Funeral Blues" and "Johnny".
http://www.npr.org/programs/death/readings/poetry/aude.html
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Redeeming the Rake by David Schiff
Discussion of Stravinsky's Opera, "The Rake's Progress", for which Auden wrote the libretto.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97nov/rake.htm
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Salon.com Audio: W. H. Auden
Recordings of Auden reading two poems, "Under Which Lyre" and "Law Like Love". Available in mp3 and RealMedia formats.
http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/auden/
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September 1, 1939
Text of one of Auden's most famous poems, which includes the line "We must love one another or die."
http://www.wargame.com/word/second/po22.html
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Song Texts
Texts of poems that have been set to music by Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten and others, including "Lullaby", "Nocturne" and "Elegy for JFK".
http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/a/auden/
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The Dyer's Hand
A review of Auden's collection of essays, by the poet John Berryman.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/13750
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The Secret Agent
A famous if obscure early Auden poem.
http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/auden/auden.html
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The Shield of Achilles
Text of this frequently anthologized poem.
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/99/jrieffel/poetry/auden/achilles.html
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The Virtual Streetband
Words from W.H. Auden put to music with animations.
http://www.virtualstreetband.com
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The Watershed
One of Auden's earliest poems.
http://www.thebeckoning.com/poetry/auden/auden1.html
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There Will be no Peace
Text of this Auden poem at Jagiellonian University,Kraków, Poland.
http://www.filg.uj.edu.pl/ifa/przeklad/whapeace.html
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Under Which Lyre
Text of this poem, subtitled "A Reactionary Tract for the Times".
http://www.wizzards.net/mlworden/atyp/auden.htm
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W.H. Auden at the University of Dundee
Text of "In Praise of Limestone" and three short poems.
http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/~arb/speleo/auden.html
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W.H. Auden at wwwebcat.nl
25 Auden poems, including "Look, Stranger (Seascape)", "This Lunar Beauty" and "Woken".
http://www.wwwebcat.nl/poetry/auden.htm
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