W H Auden

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• losing history

  
  Misadventures of the Monster Farmer-Librarian — Authority: 123
  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, ...
  2 weeks 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

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

  
  West End Whingers — Authority: 120
  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

• 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 ...
  3 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 ...
  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

• 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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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