The Map of All My Youth

This is the first volume in a new series on the work of poet W.H. Auden. It includes a large amount of unpublished material by Auden notably six poems written in German in the early 1930s translated by the poet and David Constantine and the complete version of his important early essay Writing with a new foreword by its original editor Naomi Mitchinson. Substantial selections from Auden''s letters to Stephen Spender E.R. Dodds and Mrs. Dodds are presented with full annotation. Including essays about Auden his mentors and contemporaries by leading scholars in the field and advice on collecting Auden''s works Auden Studies is indispensable for students bibliophiles and general readers interested in the great poet and his fellow writers.