As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks, and Other Light Verse

by W.H. Auden and W.H. Auden

Book Overview

W. H. Auden once defined light verse as the kind that is written by poets who are democratically in tune with their audience and whose language is straightforward and close to general speech. Given... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679761705
• ISBN13: 9780679761709
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Introduction

This slim volumne is exemplary of how quantity is not an appropriate indicator of poetic genius. I would consider this book 'Auden- Lite'and a very apt first volume of Auden's poetry. The volume has several of Auden's famous poems like 'Funeral Blues' of the Four Weddings and a Funeral fame and 'Lullaby'. While it doesn't do complete justice to Auden's spritual side it has plenty of doggerel verse including 'Jam Tart' and some very amusing short poems. Auden's versatility is very impressive and there is an almost Edwardian charm coupled with a strikingly modern sensibility that make this anthology very enjoyable.