@booklet {1090, title = {"The Unknown Citizen"}, howpublished = {The Listener (London)}, volume = {22.551 }, year = {1939}, note = {

Rpt. in The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden (New York: Random House, 1945), 142-143; in Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 (New York: Random House, 1967), 146-147; in Selected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 85-86; in The Hedgehog Review (Charlottesville, VA) 10.3 (Fall 2008): 38-39; and in The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems. Volume I 1927-1939. Ed. Edward Mendelson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022), 368-369, with a Textual Note on 767-768.

}, month = {August 3, 1939}, pages = {215}, abstract = {

Poem describing a bureaucratic dystopia that honors a man who is \"normal in every way.\"

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden (1907-73)} }