The W. H. Auden Society

<body onLoad="winFoc()" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#151DA6" vlink="maroon"> <H2>The W. H. Auden Society</H2> <hr width="100%" size="1" noshade> <p>The Society's <b> <i>Newsletter 24 </i> </b>was mailed to members in July 2004. If you have not received your copy, please send an e-mail to the <a href="mailto_3Awebmaker_40audensociety.org">Webmaster</a>.</p> <p>Following the ratification of its <a href="constitution.html"> Constitution</a> in May 2004, the Society is now registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales as Charity No. 1104496.</p> <p class="list">The <i>Oxford Book of Light Verse,</i> edited by Auden in 1938, has been reprinted by New York Review books as <b><i>W. H. Auden's Book of Light Verse.</i></b> Further details may be found on this site's <a href="news.html#oxfordbooknyrb">news page</a>.</p> <p class="list">Arthur Kirsch's annotated critical edition of Auden's <b> <i>The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare's "The Tempest,"</i></b> was published by Princeton University Press in May 2003. Further details may be found on this site's <a href="books.html#collectedpoems">books page</a>.</p> <p class="list"><span class="list"> A page of <a href="faq.html"><strong>frequently asked questions</strong></a> has been added to the site, with information about the poems by Auden quoted in <em>Tuesdays with Morrie</em> (September 1, 1939) and in <em>Four Weddings and a Funeral</em> (Stop all the clocks...). </span> </p> <p class="list"><span class="list">Some friends of the W. H. Auden Society have founded an entirely separate <a target="_blank" href="../www.yortime.org.uk/yortime/asp/groupdetails.asp@groupid=853"> City of York Auden Society</a>, which is not affiliated in any way with the W. H. Auden Society.  The City of York Auden Society sponsors  "creative literacy projects" for children, readings, and other local activities, and we wish it every success. (Auden lived in York for the first two years of his life.)</span></p> <p class="list">A note has been added to this site on the source of a sentence frequently attributed to Auden, "<a href="vivianfoster.html">We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for, I don't know.</a>"</p> <p class="list"> You may now <strong><a href="membership.html">join the Society on-line</a></strong> using a credit card and a web-based transaction service. Details may be found on the <a href="membership.html">membership page</a>. </p> <hr width="100%" size="1" noshade> <p>The W. H. Auden Society commemorates the life and work of one of the greatest poets in the English language. </p> <p>This web site offers a list of <a href="books.html">books</a> by Wystan Hugh Auden, links to some of his <a href="poems.html">poems</a>, a selective list of <a href="recordings.html">recordings</a> of his readings and of musical settings of his poems, and (to be added in the near future) a biography. Recent <a href="news.html">news</a> of publications and events of interest to Auden's readers, reports of <a href="workinprogress.html"> work in progress</a>, and brief scholarly and interpretive <a href="notes.html">notes</a> may also be found here. Visitors seeking further information can find selective lists of published <a href="criticism.html"> criticism</a> and biography, <a href="links.html">links</a> to other web sites, and the <a href="archives.html"> archives</a> of the Society's <em>Newsletter.</em></p> <p>Information is available about <a href="membership.html">membership</A> in the W. H. Auden Society and its <a href="officers.html">officers</a>, and a list of contacts is provided for authors and publishers seeking copyright <a href="copyright.html"> permission</a> to quote, reprint, or translate Auden's works. A <a href="sitemap.html">map of this site</a> is provided. </p> <p>The W. H. Auden Society is registered as a not-for-profit corporation in the State of New York. </p> <p class="note"> <em>All works by Auden quoted on this site are copyright by the Estate of W. H. Auden and are used with the permission of the Estate.</em> </p> <P></p> <HR width="100%" SIZE=1 noshade> <P><em></em>      <script language='JavaScript1.1' src="../m1.nedstatbasic.net/basic.js"> </script> <script language="JavaScript1.1" type="text/javascript">  </script> <noscript> <a target=_top href="../v1.nedstatbasic.net/stats@AAQNpAGrfQ5qwrPkxYTpxh4QNKuA"><img src="../m1.nedstatbasic.net/n@id=AAQNpAGrfQ5qwrPkxYTpxh4QNKuA" border=0 nosave width=1 height=1></a></noscript>  </BODY>