Hardcover ISBN 9780571108336 / 0571108334 Publisher: Faber and Faber, London , 1976
The definitive collected poems of Auden, containing (in their final form) all the poems he wished to preserve; edited by Auden's literary executor Edward Mendelson. Mendelson provides a preface detailing his editorial principles - poems he omitted, which text versiosn he included etc.
Green cloth boards with title label and gilt titling to spine , in a edgeworn jacket. Larger format hardcover, 696 pages.
Good in a good dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic jacket protector. Chipping and closed tears to edges of the dustjacket. Binding tight, no inscriptions or damage.
The collected poems gathers together one of the most important bodies of work that twentieth century English poetry has to offer.