81 pp. Blue cloth spine over textured cloth boards, gilt titles. A collection of short poems published just a few years after Auden won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1947. Includes a verse dedication to Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr, and the following poems: Prime; In Praise of Limestone; One Circumlocution; Their Lonely Betters; Serenade; Song; The Love Feast; The Air Port; Ischia; Pleasure Island; In Schrafft's; The Fall of Rome; Music Ho; Nursery Rhyme; The Managers; Memorial for the City; Under Sirius; Not in Baedeker; Cattivo Tempo; The Chimeras; Secrets; Numbers and Faces; Nones; A Household; The Duet; Footnotes to Dr. Sheldon; Under Which Lyre; To T.S. Eliot on His Sixtieth Birthday; Music Is International; Precious Five; A Walk After Dark.
