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Edward Mendelson

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My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Edward Mendelson, who with the publication of the Complete Poems of W H Auden in two volumes now sets the crown on more than half a century of scholarship on the poet. There’s nobody on the planet who knows more about this towering figure in twentieth-century poetry. He tells me what he finds so inexhaustibly rewarding about Auden’s work, talks about the shape of the poet’s career, the personal encounters that set him on this path… and about sex, religion and semicolons.

My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Edward Mendelson, who with the publication of the <em>Complete Poems of W H Auden</em> in two volumes now sets the crown on more than half a century of scholarship on the poet. There’s nobody on the planet who knows more about this towering figure in twentieth-century poetry. He tells me what he finds so inexhaustibly rewarding about Auden’s work, talks about the shape of the poet’s career, the personal encounters that set him on this path… and about sex, religion and semicolons.

The Book Club: Edward Mendelson

Edward Mendelson: Complete Poems of W H Auden

Edward Mendelson talks with Sasha Weiss about Frank O'Hara the moralist.

Edward Mendelson on Frank O&#8217;Hara