"The Unknown Citizen"
| Title | "The Unknown Citizen" |
| Year for Search | 1939 |
| Authors | Auden, W[ystan] H[ugh](1907-73) |
| Tertiary Authors | Auden, W. H. |
| Secondary Title | The Listener (London) |
| Volume / Edition | 22.551 |
| Pagination | 215 |
| Date Published | August 3, 1939 |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | Poem describing a bureaucratic dystopia that honors a man who is "normal in every way." |
| Additional Publishers | 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. |
| Author Note | (1907-73) |
| Full Text | 1939 Auden, W[ystan] H[ugh] (1907-73). “The Unknown Citizen.” The Listener (London) 22.551 (August 3, 1939): 215. 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. Poem describing a bureaucratic dystopia that honors a man who is “normal in every way.” |
