Edward Mendelson has significantly expanded his authoritative chronological ordered edition of Auden's Selected Poems (first published in 1979) adding twenty items to the hundred in the original edition & broadening the focus to reflect the wealth of forms the rhetorical & tonal range & the variousness of content in Auden's poetry in the confines of one volume In particular there are newly included examples of Auden's mastery of light verse the self-descriptive sequence of haiku called ' Profiles' the barbed wartime quatrains of ' Leap Before You Look' or ' Funeral Blues' itself Also included are brief notes explaining references that may have become obscure & a revised introduction drawing on recent additions to Auden scholarship