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W.H. Auden

W.H. Auden (1907–1973) was an English poet, playwright, and essayist. His poem in this issue will appear in Poems, 1940–1973, the second of the two final volumes in the Princeton University Press edition of The Complete Works of W.H. Auden.

Death at Random

Twentieth Century Book of the Dead

by Gil Elliot

December 12, 1974 issue

Veni, Vici, VD

The Dark Fields of Venus: From a Doctor's Logbook

by Basile Yanovsky MD

February 22, 1973 issue

Happy Birthday, Dorothy Day

A Harsh and Dreadful Love: Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement

by William D. Miller

December 14, 1972 issue

An Odd Couple

Munby, Man of Two Worlds: The Life and Diaries of Arthur J. Munby 1828-1910

by Derek Hudson

October 19, 1972 issue

A Saint-Simon of Our Time

In the Twenties: The Diaries of Harry Kessler

translated by Charles Kessler, with an Introduction by Otto Friedrich

August 31, 1972 issue

Too Much Mustard

The Complete Immortalia

edited by Harold H. Hart

The Gambit Book of Popular Verse

edited by Geoffrey Grigson

November 4, 1971 issue

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