The collected poems of W. H. Auden - edited by Edward Mendelson - gathers together one of the most important bodies of work that twentieth century English poetry has to offer.

This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It included the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.