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• American Companies Form Advocacy Group for Clean Energy

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 121
  2141805638_63a6741eec.jpg The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has taken a strong stance against President Obama’s environmental bill and, as a result, alienated a number of their member companies.
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• The Age of Paranoia

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  W.H. Auden, the great British poet, coined "The Age of Anxiety" to characterize the post-WWII era. Anxiety is a free-floating dread that something beyond our control will cause us harm. Auden used anxiety to describe how people desperately sought emotional stability in a fast-changing technological world. Audens ...
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• The Event

  
  Antiquitopia — Authority: 124
  In physics, an event is the intersection of the three dimensions of space and the dimension of time. In ritual, I would say, an event is the coordination of sacred space and sacred time. W.H. Auden discusses the event poetically: Between those happenings that prefigure it And those that happen in its anamnesis ...
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• Enter, finally, the real Alan Bennett

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  His new play, The Habit of Art, is ostensibly about Auden and Britten. In reality its about Alan Bennett himself. We trace his journey of self-discovery Alan Bennett has once or twice had a go at being a little more unbuttoned as he writes, but it hasnt always worked. "Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York," ...
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• Loves a little boy

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Alan Bennetts new play imagines a meeting between Britten and Auden 25 years after they fell out irrevocably. But why did their creative relationship go wrong? This is a sample of the writing Benjamin Britten set to music in his first opera, Paul Bunyan : "Let the dog whos the most sentimental of all / Throw a ...
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• Defecation and Philosophy according to Poetry

  
  Antiquitopia — Authority: 124
  The Geography of the House Seated after breakfast In this white-tiled cabin Arabs called The House where Everybody goes , Even melancholics Raise a cheer to Mrs Nature for the primal Pleasures She bestows. Sex is but a dream to Seventy-and-over, But a joy proposed un- -til we start to shave: Mouth-delight depends ...
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• Pause for Poetry (23)

  
  The Other Side of Paris — Authority: 117
  W H Auden had a very creased and wrinkled visage. He said of himself: “My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain." Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) was born in England but later became an American citizen. He signed his works W.H. Auden. I know very little about this poet bar a few poems. In ...
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• Poetry and Truth: Forgeries

  
  Antiquitopia — Authority: 124
  I can imagine a forger clever enough to imitate anothers signature so exactly that a handwriting expert would swear in court that it was genuine, but I cannot imagine a forger so clever that he could imitate his own signature inexactly enough to make a handwriting expert swear that it was a forgery. (Or is it only ...
  6 days ago

• This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State

  
  The Classic Liberal Blog — Authority: 584
  The following poem describes life in the perfect social democratic/managerial state. Human beings are complicated, defying labels and over simplifications, yet in the interests of scientific or political progress humanity is often reduced base symbols. The Unknown Citizen by W. H. Auden (To JS/07 M 378 This ...
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• walkwhilereading:The More Loving One by W.H. AudenLooking up...

  
  [andyinabox] — Authority: 133
  walkwhilereading : The More Loving One by W.H. Auden Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal ...
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• walkwhilereading:The More Loving One by W.H. AudenLooking up...

  
  [andyinabox] — Authority: 133
  walkwhilereading : The More Loving One by W.H. Auden Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal ...
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• Auden on Reviewing

  
  a portrait of the artist as a young man — Authority: 428
  “To write about a poet, for others who have not read him is not criticism but reviewing, and reviewing is not really a respectable occupation.  When a critic examines the work of a well-known poet, he may, if he is lucky, succeed revealing something about it which readers had failed to see for themselves; if, on ...
  3 weeks ago

• A spot of Auden

  
  boo to a goose — Authority: 106
  It’s time to start putting some of my favourite poems out there… From the brilliance of W H Auden this second poem of the Horae Canonicae series is certainly near the top of my list Terce After shaking paws with his dog (Whose bark would tell the world that he is always kind), The hangman sets off briskly over ...
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• Royal Mail strike: the last post

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  As a national strike threatens the future of Britains mail system Christopher Howse laments the demise of the trusty postman and asks: could this be the last post?
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• Music Review | Christine Brewer: Power, Eroticism and Wit

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  The soprano was in radiant voice from the start, with strong performances of works by Wagner, Britten and John Carter among others at Zankel Hall on Wednesday.
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• Two Quotes About Criticism

  
  Torque Control — Authority: 460
  L. Timmel Duchamp posts extracts from Brian Attebery’s Pilgrim Award acceptance speech: My third discovery about writing is that it only works when I force myself to ask the hard questions. That’s especially true when writing about something I care deeply about– passion has to be tempered and tested by ...
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