The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden

The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden comes hard on the heels of the W.H. Auden Encyclopedia (Izzo, 2004) reviewed somewhat critically by Ken Irwin in these columns (RR 2004/436). The present volume, edited by Stan Smith, contains contributions on diverse areas of Auden's achievement by 18 different hands from both sides of the Atlantic. Most are academics: one, Peter Porter, is a well‐known highly acclaimed poet; another, Richard Davenport‐Hines, Auden's distinguished biographer. Edward Mendelson, with the late Barry C. Bloomfield, compiled the definitive bibliography of Auden and is the executor of the Auden estate.

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