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Katherine Bucknell has edited three volumes of Auden Studies (with Nicholas Jenkins) and Christopher Isherwood's Diaries: Volume One, 1939-1960 and his Lost Years: A Memoir, 1945-1951. She is now preparing a third and final volume of Isherwood's diaries.
Containing more than two hundred poems, the book chronicles Auden's progress from his first verses, written when he was fifteen years old . . . As one of the most complete and scrupulous accounts of a major poet's apprenticeship, it offers what amounts to a series of master classes in the development of poetic talent and the acquisition of rhetorical skill. --Poetry As loving and meticulous and informing an edition as any writer, young or old, could wish for. . . . Watching Auden invent Audenesque is one of the many joys of this volume. --Valentine Cunningham, Chicago Tribune Auden's Poems (1930) [is] one of the century's most weirdly original first books. Thanks to Katherine Bucknell, we can now ponder in detail how he got there. --Ian Hamilton, London Review of Books Katherine Bucknell has done an excellent job as an editor. . . . [Auden] would have acknowledged that this is the way scholarship should go about its job. --John Bayley, Times Literary Supplement
