Download or read book Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 written by Wystan Hugh Auden and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1967 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection stops at the year nineteen-fifty-seven. In the following year I transferred my summer residence from Italy to Austria, so starting a new chapter in my life which is not yet finished. The poems included cover a span of thirty years, there are, if I've counted rightly, three hundred of them, I was twenty when I wrote the earliest, fifty when I wrote the latest: four nice round numbers. Besides, the volume looks alarmingly big already."--From the foreword.