by W. H. Auden · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571202607
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«Tell Me the Truth About Love» is the collection of poems by W. H. Auden, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (33 pages, in English).
Fifteen poems and cabaret songs that W. H. Auden wrote in the 1930s, with love, desire and loss as their core themes. Among them is «Funeral Blues», famous for its recitation in the film «Four Weddings and a Funeral»; the collection moves between irony and restrained emotion.
The book belongs to the Faber Pocket Poetry collection from Faber & Faber. This edition was published in October 1999.
For readers with an interest in twentieth-century English poetry and as a brief gateway into the work of W. H. Auden.
Wystan Hugh Auden was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content. Some of his best known poems are about love, such as "Funeral Blues"; on political and social themes, such as "September 1, 1939" and "The Shield of Achilles"; on cultural and psychological themes, such as The Age of Anxiety; and on religious themes, such as "For the Time Being" and "Horae Canonicae".
