Editing W. H. Auden (section)

==Published works==
The following list includes only the books of poems and essays that Auden prepared during his lifetime; for a more complete list, including other works and posthumous editions, see [[W. H. Auden bibliography]]. Dates refer to first publication or first performance, not of composition.

In the list below, works reprinted in the ''Complete Works of W.&nbsp;H. Auden'' are indicated by footnote references.

; Books
* ''[[Poems (Auden)|Poems]]'' (London, 1930; second edn., seven poems substituted, London, 1933; includes poems and ''[[Paid on Both Sides]]: A Charade''<ref name="Plays">{{cite book
| last1 = Auden
| first1 = W. H.
| first2 = Christopher
| last2 = Isherwood
| editor-first = Edward
| editor-link = Edward Mendelson
| editor-last = Mendelson
| title = Plays and other dramatic writings by W. H. Auden, 1928–1938
| publisher = Princeton University Press
| location = Princeton
| year = 1988
| isbn = 978-0-691-06740-7
| url = https://archive.org/details/playsotherdramat0000aude
}}</ref>) (dedicated to [[Christopher Isherwood]]).
* ''[[The Orators]]: An English Study'' (London, 1932, verse and prose; slightly revised edn., London, 1934; revised edn. with new preface, London, 1966; New York 1967) (dedicated to [[Stephen Spender]]).
* ''[[The Dance of Death (Auden)|The Dance of Death]]'' (London, 1933, play)<ref name="Plays"/> (dedicated to [[Robert Medley]] and [[Rupert Doone]]).
* ''[[Poems (Auden)|Poems]]'' (New York, 1934; contains ''Poems'' [1933 edition], ''The Orators'' [1932 edition], and ''The Dance of Death'').
* ''[[The Dog Beneath the Skin]]'' (London, New York, 1935; play, with Christopher Isherwood)<ref name="Plays"/> (dedicated to Robert Moody).
* ''[[The Ascent of F6]]'' (London, 1936; 2nd edn., 1937; New York, 1937; play, with Christopher Isherwood)<ref name="Plays"/> (dedicated to [[John Bicknell Auden]]).
* ''[[Look, Stranger!]]'' (London, 1936, poems; US edn., ''[[On This Island]]'', New York, 1937) (dedicated to [[Erika Mann]])
* ''[[Letters from Iceland]]'' (London, New York, 1937; verse and prose, with [[Louis MacNeice]])<ref name="ProseOne">{{cite book
| last = Auden
| first = W. H.
| editor-first = Edward
| editor-last = Mendelson
| editor-link=Edward Mendelson
| title = Prose and travel books in prose and verse, Volume I: 1926–1938
| publisher = Princeton University Press
| location = Princeton
| year = 1996
| isbn = 978-0-691-06803-9}}</ref> (dedicated to [[George Augustus Auden]]).
* ''[[On the Frontier]]'' (London, 1938; New York 1939; play, with Christopher Isherwood)<ref name="Plays"/> (dedicated to [[Benjamin Britten]]).
* ''[[Journey to a War]]'' (London, New York, 1939; verse and prose, with Christopher Isherwood)<ref name="ProseOne"/> (dedicated to [[E. M. Forster]]).
* ''[[Another Time (book)|Another Time]]'' (London, New York 1940; poetry) (dedicated to [[Chester Kallman]]).
* ''[[The Double Man (book)|The Double Man]]'' (New York, 1941, poems; UK edn., ''New Year Letter'', London, 1941) (Dedicated to [[Elizabeth Mayer]]).
* ''[[For the Time Being]]'' (New York, 1944; London, 1945; two long poems: "[[The Sea and the Mirror]]: A Commentary on Shakespeare's ''The Tempest''", dedicated to [[James Stern (writer)|James and Tania Stern]], and "[[For the Time Being]]: A Christmas Oratorio", in memoriam Constance Rosalie Auden [Auden's mother]).
* ''The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden'' (New York, 1945; includes new poems) (dedicated to Christopher Isherwood and [[Chester Kallman]]). Full text.<ref name="CollectedPoetry">{{cite book
|last=Auden
|first=W. H.
|title=The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden
|date=1945
|publisher=Random House
|location=New York
|oclc=362531
|access-date=28 May 2017
|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.215337}}</ref>
* ''[[The Age of Anxiety]]: A Baroque Eclogue'' (New York, 1947; London, 1948; verse; won the 1948 [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]) (dedicated to [[John Betjeman]]).
* ''Collected Shorter Poems, 1930–1944'' (London, 1950; similar to 1945 ''Collected Poetry'') (dedicated to Christopher Isherwood and [[Chester Kallman]]).
* ''[[The Enchafèd Flood]]'' (New York, 1950; London, 1951; prose) (dedicated to [[Alan Ansen]]).<ref name="ProseThree">{{cite book
| last = Auden
| first = W. H.
| editor-first = Edward
| editor-last = Mendelson
| editor-link = Edward Mendelson
| title = Prose, Volume III: 1949–1955
| publisher = Princeton University Press
| location = Princeton
| year = 2008
| isbn = 978-0-691-13326-3
| url-access = registration
| url = https://archive.org/details/trent_0116405823828
}}</ref>
* ''[[Nones (Auden)|Nones]]'' (New York, 1951; London, 1952; poems) (dedicated to [[Reinhold Niebuhr|Reinhold]] and [[Ursula Niebuhr]])
* ''[[The Shield of Achilles]]'' (New York, London, 1955; poems) (won the 1956 [[National Book Award for Poetry]])<ref name=nba1956>[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1956 "National Book Awards – 1956"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422162148/https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1956/ |date=22 April 2019 }}. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
<br />(With acceptance speech by Auden and essay by Megan Snyder-Camp from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)</ref> (dedicated to [[Lincoln Kirstein|Lincoln and Fidelma Kirstein]]).
* ''[[Homage to Clio]]'' (New York, London, 1960; poems) (dedicated to [[E. R. Dodds|E. R. and A. E. Dodds]]).
* ''[[The Dyer's Hand]]'' (New York, 1962; London, 1963; essays) (dedicated to [[Nevill Coghill]]).<ref name="ProseFour">{{cite book
| last = Auden
| first = W. H.
| editor-first = Edward
| editor-last = Mendelson
| editor-link=Edward Mendelson
| title = Prose, Volume IV: 1956–1962
| publisher = Princeton University Press
| location = Princeton
| year = 2010
| isbn = 978-0-691-14755-0}}</ref>
* ''[[About the House]]'' (New York, London, 1965; poems) (dedicated to [[Edmund Wilson|Edmund and Elena Wilson]]).
* ''Collected Shorter Poems 1927–1957'' (London, 1966; New York, 1967) (dedicated to Christopher Isherwood and [[Chester Kallman]]).
* ''Collected Longer Poems'' (London, 1968; New York, 1969).
* ''[[Secondary Worlds]]'' (London, New York, 1969; prose) (dedicated to [[Valerie Eliot]]).<ref name="ProseFive">{{cite book
| last = Auden
| first = W. H.
| editor-first = Edward
| editor-last = Mendelson
| editor-link=Edward Mendelson
| title = Prose, Volume V: 1963–1968
| publisher = Princeton University Press
| location = Princeton
| year = 2015
| isbn = 978-0-691-151717}}</ref>
* ''[[City Without Walls]] and Other Poems'' (London, New York, 1969) (dedicated to [[Peter Heyworth]]).
* ''[[A Certain World]]: A Commonplace Book'' (New York, London, 1970; quotations with commentary) (dedicated to [[Geoffrey Grigson]]).<ref name="ProseSix">{{cite book
| last = Auden
| first = W. H.
| editor-first = Edward
| editor-last = Mendelson
| editor-link=Edward Mendelson
| title = Prose, Volume VI: 1969–1973
| publisher = Princeton University Press
| location = Princeton
| year = 2015
| isbn = 978-0-691-164588}}</ref>
* ''[[Epistle to a Godson]] and Other Poems'' (London, New York, 1972) (dedicated to Orlan Fox).
* ''[[Forewords and Afterwords]]'' (New York, London, 1973; essays) (dedicated to [[Hannah Arendt]]).
* ''[[Thank You, Fog]]: Last Poems'' (London, New York, 1974) (dedicated to [[Michael Yates (television designer)|Michael and Marny Yates]]).

; Film scripts and opera libretti
* ''Coal Face'' (1935, closing chorus for [[GPO Film Unit]] documentary).<ref name="Plays"/>
* ''[[Night Mail]]'' (1936, narrative for [[GPO Film Unit]] documentary, not published separately except as a programme note).<ref name="Plays"/>
* ''[[Paul Bunyan (operetta)|Paul Bunyan]]'' (1941, libretto for operetta by [[Benjamin Britten]]; not published until 1976).<ref name="Libretti">{{cite book
| last1 = Auden
| first1 = W. H.
| first2 = Chester
| last2 = Kallman
| editor-first = Edward
| editor-last = Mendelson
| editor-link = Edward Mendelson
| title = Libretti and other dramatic writings by W. H. Auden, 1939–1973
| publisher = Princeton University Press
| location = Princeton
| year = 1993
| isbn = 978-0-691-03301-3
| url = https://archive.org/details/librettiotherdra00aude
}}</ref>
* ''[[The Rake's Progress]]'' (1951, with [[Chester Kallman]], libretto for an opera by [[Igor Stravinsky]]).<ref name="Libretti"/>
* ''[[Elegy for Young Lovers]]'' (1961, with [[Chester Kallman]], libretto for an opera by [[Hans Werner Henze]]).<ref name="Libretti"/>
* ''[[The Bassarids]]'' (1966, with [[Chester Kallman]], libretto for an opera by [[Hans Werner Henze]] based on ''[[The Bacchae]]'' of [[Euripides]]).<ref name="Libretti"/>
* ''Runner'' (1962, documentary film narrative for [[National Film Board of Canada]])<ref name="Libretti"/>
* ''[[Love's Labour's Lost (opera)|Love's Labour's Lost]]'' (1973, with [[Chester Kallman]], libretto for an opera by [[Nicolas Nabokov]], based on [[Love's Labour's Lost|Shakespeare's play]]).<ref name="Libretti"/>

; Musical collaborations
* ''[[Our Hunting Fathers]]'' (1936, song cycle written for [[Benjamin Britten]])
* ''[[Hymn to St Cecilia]]'' (1942, choral piece composed by [[Benjamin Britten]])
* ''An Evening of Elizabethan Verse and its Music'' (1954 recording with the [[New York Pro Musica Antiqua]], director [[Noah Greenberg]]; Auden spoke the verse texts)
* ''[[The Play of Daniel]]'' (1958, verse narration for a production by the New York Pro Musica Antiqua, director Noah Greenberg)<ref name="Libretti"/>