Introduction / Stan Smith -- Auden's life and character / Richard Davenport-Hines -- Auden's England / Patrick Deane -- Auden in America / Nicholas Jenkins -- The European Auden / Edward Mendelson -- Auden's travel writings / Tim Youngs -- Auden's plays and dramatic writings: theatre, film and opera / Christopher Innes -- Auden's light and serio-comic verse / Stan Smith -- Auden's prose / A. E. Sharpe -- Auden's English: language and style / Peter Porter -- Auden and modern theory / John R. Boly -- Auden's politics: power, authority and the individual / John Lucas -- Auden, psychology and society / Rod Mengham -- Auden: love, sexuality, desire / Richard R. Bozorth -- Auden and religion / Gareth Reeves -- Auden's landscapes / Paola Marchetti -- Auden and ecology / Rainer Emig -- Auden and influence / Ian Sansom -- Bibliographic essay and review of Auden studies / Nadia Herman Colburn