Web Directory

» 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

» As I Walked Out One Evening
   Text of the poem.
   http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/poems/auden1.html

» Bumbleshoot: W.H. Auden
   Twenty-eight poems by Auden. Includes many short poems.
   http://members.tripod.com/~bumbleshoot/poetry/auden.html

» 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

» Edward Lear
   Auden's sonnet on this Victorian writer, at the Edward Lear Home Page.
   http://edwardlear.tripod.com/auden.html

» 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/kerm01_.html

» Funeral Blues
   Text, discussion of the correct title, and scans of the original published version of this Auden poem.
   http://www.wussu.com/poems/whafb.htm

» Horae Canonicae
   Text of Auden's sequence of religious poems.
   http://spintongues.msk.ru/auden9eng.htm

» Law Like Love
   Text of this Auden poem. First line: "Law, say the gardeners, is the sun".
   http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1502.html

» 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

» 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

» Narrator
   The last speaking part of Auden's Christmas oratorio "For the Time Being."
   http://home.uchicago.edu/~narusso/m/narrator.html

» 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

» 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

» 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

» 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/

» 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/

» The Dyer's Hand
   A review of Auden's collection of essays, by the poet John Berryman.
   http://www.nybooks.com/articles/13750

» The Secret Agent
   A famous if obscure early Auden poem.
   http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/auden/auden.html

» The Shield of Achilles
   Text of this frequently anthologized poem.
   http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/99/jrieffel/poetry/auden/achilles.html

» The Virtual Streetband
   Words from W.H. Auden put to music with animations.
   http://www.virtualstreetband.com/

» The Watershed
   One of Auden's earliest poems.
   http://www.thebeckoning.com/poetry/auden/auden1.html

» There Will Be No Peace
   Auden's poem at American Digest.
   http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/myths_texts/audens_there_wi.php

» Under Which Lyre
   Text of this poem, subtitled "A Reactionary Tract for the Times".
   http://www.wizzards.net/mlworden/atyp/auden.htm

» 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