{"product_id":"9780571396825","title":"Stop All the Clocks : Poems of Love and Loss","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Auden, W.H. \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 20\/11\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 56 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780571396825,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eW. H. Auden was the consummate poet of love and heartbreak. Stop All the Clocks presents a selection of his best known, most lucid poems, poems that pitch human frailty against a persisting desire for love and belonging. Here are the anxieties that beset our waking and sleeping hours: the delirium of desire, the torture of unrequited love, the trauma of loss and displacement. And here, in these resonant, dazzling poems, is the understanding we might be looking for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'W. H. Auden had the greatest gifts of any of our poets in the twentieth century.' James Fenton, New York Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56015163031925,"sku":"9780571396825","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780571396825.jpg?v=1758960570","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780571396825","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}