W. H. Auden: A Commentary »

"Fuller's book is a deeply impressive and valuable achievement that has no real equal in the critical literature on any modern poet. It explains thousands of allusions in all of Auden's plays and poems--and covers virtually all of Auden's published work, not only the poems that he collected. But it is not simply the work of a source-hunter. It is the work of a scholar and successful poet, who can write illuminatingly about verse form and poetic tone as well as about sources and influences. In almost every case, Fuller makes the poems he writes about more enjoyable to read, not merely more comprehensible. It is an astonishingly full guide to reading and research that will remain the main reference work on Auden for many decades."--Edward Mendelson, Editor of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden (Princeton)

Choice Magazine - D.A. Barton

Fuller's Commentary on the poems of W.H. Auden has been a standard reference guide since its original publication more than 25 years ago. Weighing in at nearly twice the size of the original, this exceptionally competent revision details publishing history, explains private as well as public allusions, and drops the previous edition's coy expurgations vis-a-vis Auden's homosexuality.