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• Edward Lear by W. H. Auden

  
  The Torrible Zone — Authority: 118
  Left by his friend to breakfast alone on the whiteItalian shore, his Terrible Demon aroseOver his shoulder; he wept to himself in the night,A dirty landscape-painter who hated his nose.The legions of cruel inquisitive TheyWere so many and big like dogs: he was upsetBy Germans and boats; affection was miles away:But ...
  4 days ago

• On the London Stage: A Poet, a Composer and a Love of Theater

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  From left, Richard Griffiths, Adrian Scarborough and Alex Jennings in “The Habit of Art.”
  1 week ago

• losing history

  
  Misadventures of the Monster Farmer-Librarian — Authority: 122
  Our beloved R passed away this morning, just 4 mos. shy of her 100th birthday. I heard the news from my roomie Rugby Girl and have felt so melancholy since. I am not sad for R. I am glad that she is finally going to be able to rest. I feel a loss for our Community, since she has been part of it for over 80 years, ...
  1 week ago

• Aubade

  
  Antiquitopia — Authority: 421
  Beckoned anew to a World where wishes alter nothing, expelled from the padded cell of Sleep and re-admitted to involved Humanity, again, as wrote Augustine, I know that I am and will, I am willing and knowing, I will to be and to know, facing in four directions, outwards and inwards in Space, observing and reflecting, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ten of the best: examples of ekphrasis

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  "In the Musée des Beaux Arts" by WH Auden Audens poem is one of the most famous examples of ekphrasis: the recreation in words of a work of art. It describes Pieter Brueghels painting Landscape With the Fall of Icarus , in which a man falls from the sky, but "the white legs disappearing into the green / Water" ...
  2 weeks ago

• Saints and Conquerors

  
  Antiquitopia — Authority: 421
  Animal femurs ascribed to saints who never existed, are still more holy than portraits of conquerors who, unfortunately, did. (W.H. Auden, "Marginalia" IV)
  2 weeks ago

• Writing Fears

  
  Murderous Musings — Authority: 127
  by Jean Henry Mead The single most important drawback to a writer’s success is fear. Fear of criticism from one’s peers or condemnation from the general public. Fear of negative reviews or of spending a year or more writing a book that doesn’t sell. Fear of hiring an agent who won’t send your book to the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Review – The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett, National Theatre

  
  West End Whingers — Authority: 119
  Poetry not really being his thing, Phil had never, to his knowledge, read any W H Auden . Until last night, that is, when he read one of the celebrated poet’s works in the programme for Alan Bennett ’s new play the The Habit of Art . He’s none the wiser about the poem, poetry or Auden. Andrew, on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• American Companies Form Advocacy Group for Clean Energy

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 136
  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.
  2 weeks ago

• The Age of Paranoia

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Event

  
  Antiquitopia — Authority: 421
  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: 987
  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," ...
  2 weeks ago

• Loves a little boy

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Defecation and Philosophy according to Poetry

  
  Antiquitopia — Authority: 421
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pause for Poetry (23)

  
  The Other Side of Paris — Authority: 118
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Poetry and Truth: Forgeries

  
  Antiquitopia — Authority: 421
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State

  
  The Classic Liberal Blog — Authority: 563
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• walkwhilereading:The More Loving One by W.H. AudenLooking up...

  
  [andyinabox] — Authority: 134
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• walkwhilereading:The More Loving One by W.H. AudenLooking up...

  
  [andyinabox] — Authority: 134
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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