Auden: An Introductory Essay.

HOGGART, Richard. [W.H. Auden].

Item Number: 127903

London: Chatto & Windus, 1951.

First edition of Hoggart’s full-length critical study of Auden’s work. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Auden. Signed by the author on the title page, “with very kind regards Richard Hoggart.” Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.

There is no question that W. H. Auden is, with T. S. Eliot, one of the two most influential living poets in the English-speaking world. Here is a full-length critical study of his work, dealing with the earlier poems of the Thirties, the plays written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood, and the long major poems, including The Age Anxiety, which have appeared since Auden settled in America.