# W. H. Auden's Book of Light Verse

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- Book: [W. H. Auden's Book of Light Verse](https://www.bookquiver.com/wystan-hugh-auden/w-h-audens-book-of-light-verse) ([W. H. Auden's Book of Light Verse.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/wystan-hugh-auden/w-h-audens-book-of-light-verse.md))
- Authors: [Wystan Hugh Auden](https://www.bookquiver.com/wystan-hugh-auden), [Edward Mendelson](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-mendelson)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-089-2
- Pages: 608
- Published: 2004-07-31
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Auden's celebrated anthology of light verse is packed with surprising finds while also offering a striking rethinking of the poetic canon. Commissioned by Oxford University Press in the 1930s, when Auden's...