Nones (Auden)

1951 poetry collection by W. H. Auden

First UK edition

Nones is a book of poems by W. H. Auden published in 1951 by Faber & Faber. The book contains Auden's shorter poems written between 1946 and 1950, including "In Praise of Limestone", "Prime", "Nones," "Memorial for the City", "Precious Five", and "A Walk After Dark".

"Nones" is a contemporary setting of the Good Friday Passion.

The book includes "Barcarolle" (barcarolle), a poem from Auden's libretto for Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, the only poem in the book that did not appear in Auden's later collections. The book is dedicated to Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and his wife Ursula.

Composer Luciano Berio named his orchestral piece Nones, originally planned as an oratorio, after Auden's poem.

## References

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* John Fuller, W. H. Auden: A Commentary (1999)
* Edward Mendelson, Later Auden (1999)

## External links

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* The W. H. Auden Society

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W. H. Auden

Books of poetry|

* Poems (1930)
* The Orators (1932)
* On This Island (1936)
* Another Time (1940)
* The Double Man (1941)
* For the Time Being (1944)
* The Age of Anxiety (1947)
* Nones (1951)
* The Shield of Achilles (1955)
* Homage to Clio (1960)
* About the House (1966)
* City Without Walls (1969)
* Academic Graffiti (1971)
* Epistle to a Godson (1972)
* Thank You, Fog (1974)

Books containing
prose and verse|

* Letters from Iceland (1937)
* Journey to a War (1939)

Prose works
and other books|

* The Enchafèd Flood (1950)
* The Dyer's Hand (1962)
* Secondary Worlds (1968)
* A Certain World (1970)
* Forewords and Afterwords (1973)

Individual poems|

* "The Orators" (1932)
* "Funeral Blues" (1936)
* "Spain" (1937)
* "Musée des Beaux Arts" (1938)
* "Refugee Blues" (1939)
* "September 1, 1939" (1939)
* "The Unknown Citizen" (1939)
* "Hymn to St Cecilia" (1940)
* "For the Time Being" (1944)
* "The Sea and the Mirror" (1944)
* "The Age of Anxiety" (1947)
* "In Praise of Limestone" (1948)
* "The Platonic Blow" (1948)
* "Horae Canonicae" (1949–55)
* "Bucolics" (1952–53)
* "The Shield of Achilles" (1955)

Plays|

* Paid on Both Sides (1928)
* The Dance of Death (1933)
* The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935)
* The Ascent of F6 (1936)
* On the Frontier (1938)
* Play of Daniel (1958)

Libretti|

* Paul Bunyan (1941)
* The Rake's Progress (1951)
* Elegy for Young Lovers (1961)
* The Bassarids (1966)
* Love's Labour's Lost (1973)

Screenwriting|

* Night Mail (1936)

Family|

* George Augustus Auden (father)
* John Bicknell Auden (brother)
* Chester Kallman (companion)

Related|

* W. H. Auden bibliography

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