The collection containing Auden's most enduring poems: "Musee des Beaux Arts," "September 1, 1939," "In Memory of W.B. Yeats," and "Lay your sleeping head, my love." Written in the shadow of fascism's rise, these poems negotiate between private happiness and public catastrophe with a cool intelligence that is itself a moral stance. Auden was smart enough to see what was coming and honest enough to admit his own complicity.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.