Bucolics (Auden) Explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Book: Fuller , John . John Fuller (poet)

   . John Fuller (poet) . W. H. Auden: A Commentary . Faber and Faber . London . 1998 . 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. .