This volume --- Mr. Auden's first collection of new poems since "About the House" (1965) -- reveals the continuing development of one of the most remarkable poetic voices of our time. Mr. Auden's new book opens on a note of dread and anger, though touched with irony, and concludes with a prologue which celebrates the well-remembered world that made him, acknowledges with some affection the city that now houses him, and prays that he and an increasingly alien world may still have a voice in common.

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