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). 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. .

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