W H Auden

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

  
  West End Whingers — Authority: 407
  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 ...
  6 hours ago

• 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 ...
  3 days ago

• 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 ...
  3 days ago

• 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 ...
  6 days ago

• 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 ...
  1 week 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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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