Recreates the daily lives of Carson McCullers, W.H. Auden, Benjamin Briteen, Jane and Paul Bowles, and Gypsy Rose Lee during the year they spent living together in 1940s Brooklyn.
Contains all the known surviving poems written by Auden between March 1922 when he decided to become a poet at the age of fifteen, and October 1928 when he left school.
Contains all of W.H. Auden's essays and reviews that he wrote between 1926 and 1938 while living in England. Also includes the full original version of his two travel books "Letters from Iceland" and "Journey to a War.".
Explores the work of W.H. Auden, placing his poems in the context of his intellectual development and the social, economic, and cultural history of his time.