ARGONAUT BOOKS

'The Shield of Achilles', which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W.H. Auden's most important, intricately designed, and unified book of poetry. In addition to its famous title poem, which reimagines Achilles's shield for the modern age, when war and heroism have changed beyond recognition, the book also includes two sequences - 'Bucolics' and 'Horae Canonicae' - that Auden believed to be among his most significant work. Reviews "Everywhere in the poems we see a master of English poetry, whose stature increases with each new work."---Karl Shapiro, New York Tim...Read More