Bucolics (Auden)

Bucolics is a sequence of poems by W. H. Auden written in 1952 and 1953. The seven poems in the sequence are: "Winds", "Woods, "Mountains", "Lakes", "Islands", "Plains", and "Streams".[1]

The sequence was first published in book form in Auden's book The Shield of Achilles (1955), together with a parallel sequence "Horae Canonicae."[2]

References
  1. Fuller, John (1998). W. H. Auden: a commentary. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-19268-8.
  2. Bloomfield, B. C., and Edward Mendelson (1972). W. H. Auden: A Bibliography 1924–1969. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press|University Press of Virginia. ISBN 0-8139-0395-5.
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