Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Stan Smith
  • Auden's life and character / Richard Davenport-Hines
  • Auden's England / Patrick Deane
  • Auden in America / Nicholas Jenkins
  • The European Auden / Edward Mendelson
  • Auden's travel writings / Tim Youngs
  • Auden's plays and dramatic writings: theatre, film and opera / Christopher Innes
  • Auden's light and serio-comic verse / Stan Smith
  • Auden's prose / A.E. Sharpe
  • Auden's English: language and style / Peter Porter
  • Auden and modern theory / John R. Boly
  • Auden's politics: power, authority and the individual / John Lucas
  • Auden, psychology and society / Rod Mengham
  • Auden: love, sexuality, desire / Richard R. Bozorth
  • Auden and religion / Gareth Reeves
  • Auden's landscapes / Paola Marchetti
  • Auden and ecology / Rainer Emig
  • Auden and influence / Ian Sansom
  • Bibliographic essay and review of Auden studies / Nadia Herman Colburn.