Journey to a War

Journey to a War is a travel book in prose and verse by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, published in 1939.

First US edition
(publ. Random House)

The book is in three parts: a series of poems by Auden describing his and Isherwood's journey to China in 1938 ; a "Travel-Diary" by Isherwood (including material first drafted by Auden) about their travels in China itself, and their observations of the Sino-Japanese War; and "In Time of War: A Sonnet Sequence with a Verse Commentary" by Auden, with reflections on the contemporary world and their experiences in China. The book also contains a selection of photographs by Auden.

Auden revised many of the poems in this book for his later collections; "In Time of War" was renamed "Sonnets from China" (with many original sonnets discarded) and the verse commentary was dropped entirely.

References

W. H. Auden, Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse, 1927-1938, ed. Edward Mendelson (1997)
John Fuller, W. H. Auden: A Commentary (1999).
Edward Mendelson, Early Auden (1981).

External links

The W. H. Auden Society

Christopher Isherwood
Prose fiction	All the Conspirators (1928) The Memorial (1932) Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) Goodbye to Berlin (1939) Prater Violet (1945) The Berlin Stories (1945) The World in the Evening (1954) Down There on a Visit (1962) A Single Man (1964) A Meeting by the River (1967) The Mortmere Stories (1994, with Edward Upward) Jacob's Hands: A Fable (1997, with Aldous Huxley)
Plays (with W. H. Auden)	The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935) The Ascent of F6 (1937) On the Frontier (1938)
Memoirs and diaries	Lions and Shadows (1938) Christopher and His Kind (1976) Kathleen and Frank (1971) October (1980, with Don Bachardy) Where Joy Resides (1989, edited by Don Bachardy and James P. White) Diaries: 1939–1960 (1996, edited by Katherine Bucknell) Lost Years: A Memoir 1945–1951 (2000, edited by Katherine Bucknell) Kathleen and Christopher (2005, edited by Lisa Colletta) The Sixties: Diaries 1960–1969 (2010, edited by Katherine Bucknell) Liberation: Diaries 1970–1983 (2012, edited by Katherine Bucknell) The Animals: Love Letters between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy (2014, edited by Katherine Bucknell)
Journalism and travel writings	Journey to a War (1939, with W. H. Auden) The Condor and the Cows (1949) Exhumations (1966) Isherwood on Writing (2007)
Screenplays	Little Friend (1934) Rage in Heaven (1941) Forever and a Day (1943) Adventure in Baltimore (1949; story) The Great Sinner (1949) Diane (1956) The Loved One (1965) The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967) Frankenstein: The True Story (1973)
Adaptations	I Am a Camera (1951 play) I Am a Camera (1955 film) Cabaret (1966 musical) Cabaret (1972 film) A Single Man (2009) Christopher and His Kind (2011)
Vendanta writings	Vedanta for the Western World (1949, editor and contributor) What Vedanta Means to Me (1951, pamphlet) An Approach to Vedanta (1963) Ramakrishna and His Disciples (1965) Essentials of Vedanta (1969) My Guru and His Disciple (1980)
Translations	Charles Baudelaire, Intimate Journals (1930) The Song of God: Bhagavad-Gita (with Swami Prabhavananda, 1944) Shankara's Crest-Jewel of Discrimination (with Swami Prabhavananda, 1947) How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali (with Swami Prabhavananda, 1953)
Other	Don Bachardy Sally Bowles Jean Ross Edward Upward W. H. Auden Stephen Spender Aldous Huxley Swami Prabhavananda James P. White Katherine Bucknell Vedanta Society of Southern California Chris & Don (2008)

W. H. Auden
Books of poetry	Poems (1930) The Orators (1932) On This Island (1936) Another Time (1940) The Double Man (1941) For the Time Being (1944) The Age of Anxiety (1947) Nones (1951) The Shield of Achilles (1955) Homage to Clio (1960) About the House (1966) City Without Walls (1969) Academic Graffiti (1971) Epistle to a Godson (1972) Thank You, Fog (1974)
Books containing prose and verse	Letters from Iceland (1937, with Louis MacNeice) Journey to a War (1939, with Christopher Isherwood)
Prose works and other books	The Enchafèd Flood (1950) The Dyer's Hand (1962) Secondary Worlds (1968) A Certain World (1970) Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Individual poems	"The Orators" (1932) "Funeral Blues" (1936) "Spain" (1937) "Musée des Beaux Arts" (1938) "Refugee Blues" (1939) "September 1, 1939" (1939) "The Unknown Citizen" (1939) "Hymn to St. Cecilia" (1940) "For the Time Being" (1944) "The Sea and the Mirror" (1944) "The Age of Anxiety" (1947) "In Praise of Limestone" (1948) "The Platonic Blow" "Horae Canonicae" (1949–55) "Bucolics" (1952–53) "The Shield of Achilles" (1955)
Plays	Paid on Both Sides (1928) The Dance of Death (1933) The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935) The Ascent of F6 (1936) On the Frontier (1938) The Play of Daniel (1958)
Libretti	Paul Bunyan (1941) The Rake's Progress (1951) Elegy for Young Lovers (1961) The Bassarids (1966) Love's Labour's Lost (1973)
Screenwriting	Night Mail (1936)
Family	George Augustus Auden (father) John Bicknell Auden (brother) Chester Kallman (companion)
Related	W. H. Auden bibliography

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