A CERTAIN WORLD

A Certain World
	First UK edition
Author	W. H. Auden
Language	English
Subject	Commonplace books
Published	1970 by Viking Press
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	438
ISBN	0670209945
OCLC	87076
LC Class	PN 6245 .A91

A Certain World: A Commonplace Book, by W. H. Auden, is an anthology of passages and quotations from other authors, selected by Auden, arranged alphabetically by subject. He called it "a sort of autobiography." Subjects include time, sin, and landscapes. It was published in 1970.^[1]

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^ "Kirkus Review: A Certain World". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 6 June 2016.

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v t e 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, with Louis MacNeice) Journey to a War (1939, with Christopher Isherwood)
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

v t e 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, with Louis MacNeice) Journey to a War (1939, with Christopher Isherwood)
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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