# Stop all the clocks

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- Book: [Stop all the clocks](https://www.bookquiver.com/w-h-auden/stop-all-the-clocks) ([Stop all the clocks.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/w-h-auden/stop-all-the-clocks.md))
- Authors: [Wystan Hugh Auden](https://www.bookquiver.com/w-h-auden)
- Publisher: Faber AND Faber
- ISBN: 978-05-7139-682-5
- Pages: 56
- Published: 2025-11-20
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone . . . W. H. Auden was the consummate poet of love and heartbreak. Stop All the Clocks presents a selection of his best known, most lucid poems, poems that pitch human frailty against a persisting desire for love and belonging. Here are the anxieties that beset our waking and sleeping hours: the delirium of desire, the torture of unrequited love, the trauma of loss and displacement. And here, in these resonant, dazzling poems, is the understanding we might be looking for.