| 单词 | Auden |
| 例句 | I’m enclosing a poem by Auden on the death of Yeats cut out from an old London Mercury from last year. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Beyond the compass were his copies of Auden’s Poems and Housman’s A Shropshire Lad. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z W. H. Auden’s celebrated definition has it that poetry is “memorable speech,” and Auden is right. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z In 1951, he published one of the first critical studies of W. H. Auden’s poetry, “Auden: An Introductory Essay.” Richard H. Hoggart, ‘Lady Chatterley’s’ Savior, Dies at 95 2014-04-23T20:45:56Z Frequently, that connection is structured through allusions to literary models that Nava signals in his titles: a Cummings poem, in “Howtown”; Auden, in “The Hidden Law”; Homer’s Odyssey, in “Rag and Bone.” A Gay Mystery Novelist Who Chronicles the Aftermath of AIDS 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z There are only hints of the darker, Machiavellian king whom Auden lumped with Richard III in scoundrel territory. | 'Henry V': A Kingdom for a Stage, Princes to Act ...and Maybe a Better Hall? 2011-08-17T21:51:54Z It pays to remember that when Stravinsky and Auden began work on the opera at the composer’s home on Wetherly Drive above Sunset Boulevard in 1947, World War II was a fresh memory. For opera lovers, at last a 'Rake' for L.A., bearded lady and all 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Auden poem, “If I Could Tell You,” at school, she said. Juliet Stevenson Returns to ‘The Doctor,’ and the New York Stage 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Auden; it’s comparatively more playful, with comedic glissandos and an extreme depth of range that reveals Ms. Davidsen’s past as a mezzo-soprano. The Met Opera’s Newest Star Returns, on the Small Screen 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z The Habit of Art was based on a fictional meeting between composer Benjamin Britten and poet WH Auden. Bennett's People casts lead role 2012-07-30T13:51:31Z And even Auden exclaims, “O plunge your hands in water,/ Plunge them in up to the wrist;/Stare, stare in the basin/ And wonder what you’ve missed.” Perspective | In a time of crisis, poetry can help focus our fears and transform ‘noise into music’ 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z In short order, he was exchanging e-mails with her about matters ranging from W. H. Auden to the Catholic Church. Caroline Kennedy, Catching the Torch 2013-07-26T20:10:51Z Auden, articulating what many artists have felt since the dawn of the modern age two centuries ago, when scientific discoveries became the dominating reality of our daily lives. Review | Looking back at a Bauhaus artist who tried to bridge the gap between science and art 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z It had been in private hands since Auden's death in 1973, but was recently unearthed and sold earlier this month at Christie's in London to the British Library for £47,475. Unseen WH Auden diary sheds light on famous poem and personal life 2013-06-26T08:00:03Z Auden, actor Robin Williams, and scientists Stephen Jay Gould and Francis Crick — commemorated by Sacks in his memoir. Oliver Sacks' 'On the Move' a memoir of an extraordinary life 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z His great critical work The Auden Generation was published by Faber the year of my birth. Alex Preston on The Revelations – paperback Q&A 2012-08-14T16:21:37Z Among those who died before Spender was Auden, the dominant presence in the journals and a constant point of comparison. Stephen Spender: New Selected Journals, 1939-1995, edited by Lara Feigel and John Sutherland, with Natasha Spender – review 2012-08-03T21:55:00Z Auden and Chester Kallman based their libretto on 18th century William Hogarth etchings that had caught Stravinsky’s neo-Classical eye, but the opera is often updated. For opera lovers, at last a 'Rake' for L.A., bearded lady and all 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Auden wrote in his poem “Prologue: The Birth of Architecture,” “Some thirty inches from my nose / The frontier of my person goes.” Headphones Everywhere 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z The first weekend's programmes explore Britten's relationship with earlier British composers, including Purcell and Dowland, while the second remembers his musical friends and collaborators, including WH Auden, Aaron Copland and Mstislav Rostropovich. Burt Bacharach, Leo Blanco, the Congos: this week's new live music 2013-06-22T05:00:17Z As a young poet, Mr. Hollander fell under the influence of W. H. Auden, whose experiments in fusing contemporary subject matter with traditional metric forms he emulated. John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z Well, when I first went to grammar school I liked W. H. Auden. Johnny Marr returns: “I was an 18-year-old guitar player … I wanted to be modern” 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z I remember a line of Auden first editions in the glass-fronted bookcase of a neighbour: a man, moreover, who had actually known Auden decades previously, and even played cricket with him. Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile 2012-06-29T21:55:18Z Let Auden have the last word, from the last lines of his poem: But now he cried in jubilation and surrender, “The Godhead is broken, we are the pieces.” Call me the greatest American novel 2012-06-14T00:00:00Z In 1812 an academic philology treatise was published and promptly became, according to WH Auden, "second only to the Bible in importance" as a foundation text of western culture. Sara Maitland's top 10 books of the forest 2012-11-14T15:08:31Z Cohen favors an Audenesque quatrain with none of the puckish genius Auden used to refashion the form. Leonard Cohen’s Posthumous Collection of Poems, Lyrics and Sketches 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Between these mundane characters and what Auden requires of them stretches a dizzying gulf. On an alien shore 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z Auden called Iago ‘The Great Improviser,’ and the hanky gave him the idea for his deception: “ ‘Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.’ Nine Hours of Shakespeare 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Auden wrote the journal between August and November 1939, shortly after he left England for America with the novelist Christopher Isherwood – a move heavily criticised as unpatriotic by the British media. Unseen WH Auden diary sheds light on famous poem and personal life 2013-06-26T08:00:03Z Auden was referring to books in terms of their literary merit — what they say, and how the writer said it. The Invincible Book Keeps Reinventing Itself 2010-10-24T11:30:00Z That’s W. H. Auden, from “The Dyer’s Hand,” the first dozen pages of which — a series of epigrammatic musings on “Reading” — may be all the theory any critic needs. film: Sometimes A Vegetable Is Just a Vegetable 2011-06-17T15:55:10Z If poetry, as Auden wrote, “might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings,” then the medium seems particularly suited to capturing the ambivalence of the old toward old age. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z It’s a rediscovery of Auden’s fine poem, “The More Loving One.” Deborah Levy Would Like to Drink With Virginia Woolf 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z “Every poem is rooted in imaginative awe,” W. H. Auden said. Poetry to Tap Into Women’s Spiritual Sides 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Pendleton’s production gives the illusion of letting life happen as it happens, unscripted and untidy, with destiny-changing events often occurring not center stage but, as W. H. Auden put it, “anyhow in a corner.” | 'Three Sisters': Russian Ennui, American Idiom 2011-02-04T03:01:38Z According to W. H. Auden, “What mad Nijinsky wrote about Diaghilev is true of the normal heart.” Mikhail Baryshnikov Prepares to Portray, What Else, a Dancer 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Fascism exploits that fact, as regretted in the Auden sonnet which provides the poem's epigraph. Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke 2010-08-30T10:24:00Z Auden once wrote, “Quite leisurely from the disaster.” 'The Grim Sleeper' is the story of the South L.A. serial killer and the women who were his victims 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The never-fulfilled expectation of rhyme is a suitable curse on any lonesome quartet of drinkers at any bar, a milieu that Auden calls "an unprejudiced space where nothing particular ever happens". On an alien shore 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z Auden in his elegy to W. B. Yeats. “your gift survived it all.” ArtsBeat Blog: Theater Talkback: Who Wrote Shakespeare? Who Cares? 2011-10-27T15:42:53Z "It's fairly easy to discover how writers like George Orwell or WH Auden or Laurie Lee reacted to the Spanish crisis. But what Britain's painters and sculptors did is less well known." Spanish Civil War artists go on show 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Auden's famous poem, September 1, 1939, opens "I sit in one of the dives / On Fifty-second Street / Uncertain and afraid / As the clever hopes expire / Of a low dishonest decade". Unseen WH Auden diary sheds light on famous poem and personal life 2013-06-26T08:00:03Z There I realized that Auden was right after all. Footsteps: Poetry Made Me Do It: My Trip to the Hebrides 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z Auden in turn hated both Bernstein’s symphony and Robbins’s ballet; he would have surely hated Mr. Scarlett’s potpourri for its sheer harmlessness. Royal Ballet’s Focus on British Choreography Exposes Its Limits 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Auden and Ted Hughes towards Housman; and the part Housman played in the English musical renaissance. A Worcestershire lad 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z “Still under Auden’s influence, I wanted to be read by philosophers and scientists and political theorists, not just by literary readers.” John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z W. H. Auden explores the journals of Virginia Woolf and considers the revolutionary nature of her essays and novels. Sunday Reading: Literary Chronicles 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Witness the work of writers through Auden, Freud, Kierkegaard and Darwin to Hippocrates in the fourth century BC. 'Sick and asphyxiating' – why we live in an age of anxiety 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z On top is the poet W. H. Auden, wearing academic robes. Samuel Hynes Discusses His Book ‘The Unsubstantial Air’ 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Susan pulled down a nice copy of Auden’s Complete Poems; on the dust jacket, in her father’s handwriting, is an abbreviated train schedule. Closing the Book on Cheever’s House 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z You may agree with Auden, who wrote in Archaeology: guessing is always more fun than knowing. Jo Bell's poetry workshop 2011-08-09T11:34:20Z In Auden's beautiful eulogy for Yeats, he said, 'He became his admirers,' and I think that's kind of what he had in mind actually. Top 10 tips for writing poetry 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z The complex play-within-a-play structure allowed Griffiths to portray both Auden – the apostle of freedom and intellectual bully – and a tetchy actor worried about his lines and missing a lucrative voiceover engagement. Richard Griffiths obituary 2013-03-29T16:52:59Z Knussen's own Requiem: Songs for Sue has a profoundly personal eloquence; Booth sang the settings of Dickinson, Machado, Auden and Rilke with ever greater effectiveness. BCMG/Knussen ? review 2011-03-15T18:23:56Z By that he means the Bodleian's archival holdings of other Oxford poets – the Thirties Poets as they became known – including Auden, Stephen Spender and Louis MacNeice. Cecil Day-Lewis letters donated to Oxford library by his children 2012-10-30T00:01:03Z That book was selected by W. H. Auden for the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets award. Books: Hawaii and Nature Are Inspirations for W. S. Merwin 2010-07-01T02:20:00Z That’s the voice of long experience speaking — Auden in his twilight, yes, and also Bennett, who this week turned 89. ‘The Habit of Art’ Review: Theater of the Creative Drive 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z WH Auden and Robert Lowell revised their published poetry for later editions – an impulse with which many writers will sympathise – though the new versions of the poems were frequently less good than the originals. The importance of good editing 2012-06-14T14:04:47Z And he describes W. H. Auden leaving America after 33 years to return home to England, looking “terribly old and frail, but nobly formal as a Gothic cathedral.” Review: Oliver Sacks Looks at His Life in ‘On the Move’ 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z They inhabit the same poetic territory as some of Auden, Merrill, Larkin—where the seemingly casual edges over into something profound. Here is part of a poem called “Curiosity”: Postscript: Alastair Reid (1926-2014) 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z “The Habit of Art” is partially about an imagined meeting between Auden and his old friend, the composer Benjamin Britten. ‘The Habit of Art’ Review: Theater of the Creative Drive 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Auden's burned-out Manhattanites are under no more obligation to chat in American slang than Hamlet is to murmur in Middle Danish. On an alien shore 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z Auden’s verse, in particular, alerted him to the possibility that play and humor could find expression in poetry. John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z Niebuhr's energy and ambition compelled WH Auden, another appreciative reader, to call him "an ecclesiastical Orson Welles". Why Reinhold Niebuhr matters now 2011-07-21T11:45:29Z W. H. Auden worried about what would become of Monostatos in a more democratic age: A challenge for the arts: Stop sanitizing and show the great works as they were created To paraphrase Auden, this shows an affirming flame at a time beleaguered by negation and despair. Against all odds, A Tribe Called Quest delivers one final masterpiece 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The piece did well to withstand being prefaced by a rare screening of the 1936 documentary The Way to the Sea, with music by Britten and commentary by WH Auden. Music-in-the-Round festival – review 2013-05-13T17:31:19Z No W. H. Auden or, if it comes to it, Guy Fawkes either. Not in York's guidebooks - yet. Take a walk through radical York 2013-01-16T07:01:00Z Oliver was a man of W. H. Auden’s era, as well as our own, and this, in part, is what drew me to him. Swimming with Oliver Sacks 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z "You will always be a poet because you will always be humiliated," Auden said soon after they met, and humiliation came naturally to him. Stephen Spender: New Selected Journals, 1939-1995, edited by Lara Feigel and John Sutherland, with Natasha Spender – review 2012-08-03T21:55:00Z Stop All the Clocks, Auden's cabaret song, isn't, as Richard Curtis assumes, about the death of a lover; it is too hyperbolically comic to be elegiac. Heartbreak by Craig Raine Digested read 2010-07-12T23:05:00Z “Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry,” W. H. Auden wrote of Yeats. Natasha Trethewey: By the Book 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Auden was disqualified from a drug trial because of an early medical complication. A 7 year-old wins a fight for unapproved drugs 2014-03-12T18:31:00Z Auden, Paul Valéry, Elizabeth Bishop, Pablo Neruda and many other major poets somehow didn’t make the cut. Review | The ultimate literary bucket list: ‘1,000 Books to Read Before You Die’ 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Every singer made direct contact with the audience and enunciated Auden’s arch lyrics so clearly that the projected titles were of little need. For opera lovers, at last a 'Rake' for L.A., bearded lady and all 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z In his study he showed me a school picture of Auden and himself, something he kept close by. Christopher Isherwood's Liberation 2012-06-01T21:55:14Z The book languished in the children’s realm for about 17 years before Mr. Tolkien, a glacially slow writer, produced its follow-up, “The Fellowship of the Ring,” which immediately gained adult fans, including W. H. Auden. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Watching a reworking of Mr. Neumeier’s ballet 12 years later, the critic Jennifer Dunning observed in The New York Times that it was hard to imagine anyone successfully adapting the Auden poem to dance. Royal Ballet Debuts Liam Scarlett’s ‘The Age of Anxiety’ 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z He played with his band, they set an Auden poem to music. White House event sparks collaboration between poet and singer 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z But it was exactly what Auden, in particular, had wanted. Is ‘The Bassarids’ an Operatic Masterpiece, or ‘Strauss Turned Sour’? 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z The odds are heavily in favor of Patrick turning out like David, for aside from the genetic inheritance, as Auden reminds us, those to whom evil is done do evil in return. Patrick Melrose and the Fall of the English Élite 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Industrial traces – submerged railway sleepers, cracked chimneys – have become what WH Auden termed a "sacred landscape": "Tramlines and slagheaps, pieces of machinery,/ That was, and still is, my ideal scenery." What's wrong with England's 'dark satanic mills'? 2012-07-27T12:44:19Z In casual conversation, he recites passages from Auden, Shakespeare, Milton, Anglo-Saxon and South American epics, as if they were written in one book by a single author. A Road Trip With One of the 20th Century’s Greatest Writers 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Like Robert Frost and W. H. Auden, but perhaps with fewer missteps and regrets, Heaney became the sort of modern poet whose best-known phrases circulate without attribution. How Seamus Heaney Became a Poet of Happiness 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The venerable English publishing house Faber & Faber — the longtime home of writers including T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, William Golding, Samuel Beckett, Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes — is celebrating its 90th anniversary. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z An English performing version by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman renders the lines: On the go from morn till night, Running errands, never free. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z Elsewhere, I got stuck into the kind of "idiot's work" that WH Auden tried to warn us off: that of trying to establish the identity of the sonnets' dramatis personae. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z Full stanzas, too, from Auden and Larkin… Not familiar with everything cited, I find it safest to arrange my face into a look of broad understanding, trusting there won't be a quiz at the end. Martin Amis: 'You have to be slightly innocent to be a novelist' 2011-04-02T23:08:29Z Perhaps Auden stood out, due to his difficulty. John Ashbery: By the Book 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z West's World is really what Auden called "a shilling life", the retelling of a career we love to read about, lazily written and sloppily edited. West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West by Lorna Gibb – review 2013-04-07T08:01:02Z Her story comes to a halt just as the 27-year-old’s first book is chosen for the Yale Younger Poets Prize by one of his heroes, W. H. Auden. A Fascinating Deep Dive Into John Ashbery’s Early Years 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z This intriguing disc of mostly incidental music from the 1930s and early ’40s includes collaborations with W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood on the plays “The Ascent of F6” and “On the Frontier.” ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Luiza Borac, Alisa Weilerstein, Cédric Tiberghien and More 2014-02-26T19:54:43Z The book is part of Princeton University Press's ongoing publication of critical editions of Auden – it brought out The Sea and the Mirror in 2003, and this follows a similar format. Poetry ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:06Z I continue to be inspired by Auden, Stevens, Bishop, MacNeice, Marianne Moore, Dylan Thomas, etc., the list goes on, but I don’t often read them. John Ashbery: By the Book 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Auden, for his part, was wary of tidy summations of the work, or overtly allegorical analyses of it. Is ‘The Bassarids’ an Operatic Masterpiece, or ‘Strauss Turned Sour’? 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Unfortunately for Comfort, we know the sentiment better from his rival, WH Auden. The joy of Alex Comfort 2012-12-28T22:55:14Z It brings to mind W. H. Auden’s line about how “even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course/Anyhow in a corner.” Theater Review: ?Early Plays? by O?Neill From Wooster Group at St. Ann?s 2012-02-23T05:07:20Z Elements of this description fit Walser’s novel too, but maybe Auden exaggerates a little. The Obsession That Inspired Great Poetry, if Not Great Romance 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z W. H. Auden felt this way, and Vendler has written that it’s pointless to review bad poetry. The Education Issue: Stephen Burt, Poetry’s Cross-Dressing Kingmaker 2012-09-16T00:17:27Z The long, wordy text still has the feel of game-play, with Kallman writing the bulk but Auden scoring points for some sharp, abrasive couplets. Aida; Elegy for Young Lovers; O Sonho 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z Auden, Gore Vidal and poet Robert Lowell contributed to the debut issue — and gave them the freedom to engage with ideas and social problems as they saw fit. Robert Silvers, a founding editor of New York Review of Books, dies at 87 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Though her diction was often unclear, Stravinsky is partly at fault for the sometimes awkward way he set the clever but archly poetic English libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Music Review: In Yielding to Temptation, Losing a Chance at True Love 2011-06-27T21:19:10Z Art, if it doesn’t start there, at least ends,” W. H. Auden wrote, “In an attempt to entertain our friends.” The Persistence of Litmags 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Auden's poem "Musee des Beaux Arts" that digs into this "life goes on unawares" theme, observing how in Pieter Brueghel painting "The Fall of Icarus," Recommended reading for April: New must-read books to liven up long shutdown days 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Polished and sly, Ms. Majeski, a young American soprano, closed the program with the four songs that Britten wrote in the late 1930s for the singer and actress Hedli Anderson, to wry poems by Auden. Music Review: Amanda Majeski Sings Britten and Schumann in Concert 2014-02-11T21:54:15Z “In addition to any literary merit it may have, a new book by him has a historic interest for us as the act of a person in whom we have long been interested,” Auden wrote. Jeffrey Eugenides’s Short Stories Salvage Wit From Life’s Grind 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z In his great poem “Musée des Beaux Arts,” W. H. Auden wrote of how suffering “takes place while someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.” | 'Sons of the Prophet': ?Sons of the Prophet? at Laura Pels Theater - Review 2011-10-21T02:14:08Z He admired Auden's devotion to work but was also pulled in the opposite direction, towards sociability, hedonism, "travelling first-class, giving people delicious meals, etc". Stephen Spender: New Selected Journals, 1939-1995, edited by Lara Feigel and John Sutherland, with Natasha Spender – review 2012-08-03T21:55:00Z To be a poet, however reduced and/or neglected, is to be a member of an elite; heir to a tradition that includes Chaucer, Shakespeare, Byron, Auden and Larkin. The class pyramid of British literature 2010-03-22T12:01:00Z Auden and Chester Kallman, or the musical comedy presented by the Public Theater in 2013, with songs by Michael Friedman, Dehnert’s version does not use its songs to deepen character and propel the story. Review: Young Bros and Maidens Harmonize in ‘Love’s Labor’s Lost’ 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Auden famously wrote that poetry makes nothing happen. Facing ‘the Can’t-See of the Future,’ in Verse and at the Chiropractor’s 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Auden termed “northernness”; an elf scribe named Ilbereth; invented languages and alphabets. Review | Before he dreamed up Frodo, J.R.R. Tolkien let his imagination run wild as Father Christmas 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z He was also exposed to Auden, Lowell and Plath. Rupert Thomson: a life in writing 2013-03-08T10:00:01Z As Auden said of Yeats, "Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry", but a tradition of writing is also self-perpetuating, self-propelling. Author, author: Nick Laird 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z The couple met at a public reading, and their relationship was "instrumental", the British Library said, in Auden's decision to become an American citizen. Unseen WH Auden diary sheds light on famous poem and personal life 2013-06-26T08:00:03Z This revealed to me the existence of Wallace Stevens, Auden, Dylan Thomas, W. C. Williams and so many others waiting for me to discover them, which I immediately set about doing. John Ashbery: By the Book 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Auden praised the realism of the imaginary world they describe. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z A stanza echoed in WH Auden's Epitaph on a Tyrant: "when he cried the little children died in the streets". Anarchy in Peterloo: Shelley's poem unmasked 2013-07-08T17:28:22Z The siblings’ London-based pharma operation, Auden McKenzie, specialises in the development, licensing and marketing of niche generic medicines, and is at the cutting edge of work into areas such as treating heroin addiction. Victoria Beckham tops chart of Britain’s most successful entrepreneurs 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z In the autumn of 1930, Faber & Faber offered not only W. H. Auden’s “Poems” but P. P. Graves’s “The Pursuit” and “The Ecliptic,” by Joseph Gordon MacLeod. The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Auden, and David Jackson was to James Merrill: factotum, major-domo, helpmate. ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ by Jay Parini 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z She and Jack bond through a mutual interest in poetry; Poe, Frost, Auden, H.D., Marilynne Robinson’s New Book Explores Love in Segregated America 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Auden’s “Lullaby”: “Lay your sleeping head, my love / Human on my faithless arm.” Ian Bostridge on Music’s Fuzzy Boundaries of Identity 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z My favorite is another Auden: “If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.” The age of atheism: “If God exists, why is anybody unhappy?” 2014-02-15T15:45:00Z The brief period of cohabitation in Brooklyn of Britten, Pears, Auden and his boyfriend Chester Kallman and, for some reason, Gypsy Rose Lee was one of constant demonstrations of incompatibility. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z Using a hand press, he printed Auden’s first collection of poetry in an edition of just 45 copies, one of modernism’s rarest titles. The real Stephen Spender as seen by his son in ‘A House in St. John’s Wood’ 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Auden, confessed that he had not understood a word of it. John Ashbery, Prize-Winning Poet, Is Dead at 90 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z But if I was forced to commit to one, it would be another on Laird's list, WH Auden's Lullaby. Open thread: What are your favourite love poems? 2012-02-13T08:00:07Z Britten's Hymn to St Cecilia, for unaccompanied voices and setting words by WH Auden, was delivered with cool precision, the three different settings of the refrain building to an ecstatic end. Bath MozartFest – review 2012-11-12T17:28:09Z Many of the early verses in this complete volume show Larkin’s struggle to find a voice of his own; they reverberate with echoes of Yeats, Auden and Eliot. Books of The Times: Philip Larkin?s Complete Poems, Edited by Archie Burnett 2012-04-09T21:28:30Z “Samuel R. Delany’s ‘The Fall of the Towers’ opens with a giant quote from Auden,” Burt wrote to me. The Education Issue: Stephen Burt, Poetry’s Cross-Dressing Kingmaker 2012-09-16T00:17:27Z Auden Bistro at the Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park is starting a monthly dinner series on Thursday called Kitchen Takeover, where a different New York City chef takes over its kitchen for a night. Tour and Hotel News: New Excursions in Israel and Australia 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z He also conducted; he later suggested that the experience of leading works by Schubert and Brahms seasoned him for the challenges of Auden and Kallman’s text. Is ‘The Bassarids’ an Operatic Masterpiece, or ‘Strauss Turned Sour’? 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z At Deerfield, he continued to feel like an outsider, but also began to write in earnest and to read deeply in modernist poets like Auden, Gertrude Stein and Marianne Moore. A Fascinating Deep Dive Into John Ashbery’s Early Years 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z As a lyricist, Mr. Kahane, a singer-songwriter who eludes pigeonholes, may hardly be on a level with Auden, three of whose poems he courageously uses as the basis for songs. Theater Review: ‘February House,’ at the Public Theater 2012-05-23T02:00:01Z The other characters — especially Auden’s parents — are similarly underwritten, so the film is left grasping for conflict or clear stakes. ‘Along for the Ride’ Review: Becoming a Kid Again 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z He set the words of some of the most revered poets in the English language: Shakespeare, Donne, Keats, Blake, Auden. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Auden — who himself aspired to be “a minor Atlantic Goethe” — championed this “last universal genius” in several characteristically brilliant essays. A new look at Goethe, a one-time cultural celebrity 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z No one has summed up this doomed but necessary mission better than W. H. Auden in his poem "The Novelist." ArtsBeat: Werewolves, Vampires and Shrinks, Oh My: Glen Duncan Talks About 'Talulla Rising' 2012-06-27T14:52:44Z Auden wrote an amazing poem about Herman Melville. Call me the greatest American novel 2012-06-14T00:00:00Z Further, these books contained Auden's still-echoing words in the form in which they had first come into the world. Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile 2012-06-29T21:55:18Z "A poet's hope: to be like some valley cheese, local but prized elsewhere," wrote WH Auden. Birmingham's Fierce festival is a gem of local legacy-building 2011-03-24T13:17:37Z He was especially struck, he told The Paris Review, by Auden’s “improvisational relation to stances and forms and literary modes.” John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z Auden — and his answer was both somber and sublime. ‘Empire of Light’ Review: They Found It at the Movies 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z The association produced a number of interesting works before Auden put an end to their friendship by writing a long and bossy letter to Britten explaining how he should improve himself. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z Thus the lesson pithily phrased by Auden: "Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return." Frankenstein at the National Theatre 2011-02-12T00:05:26Z This is a meditation on suffering, about which, Auden famously said, the old masters were never wrong. Keeping the faith in Tarell Alvin McCraney's 'Head of Passes' 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Auden line “poetry makes nothing happen,” which he said he thinks about a lot. He Made a Show About Grief. She Saw Herself In It. 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z But Auden's journal shows that, despite his absence, events in Europe were very much on his mind, said Helen Melody, curator of modern literary manuscripts at the British Library. Unseen WH Auden diary sheds light on famous poem and personal life 2013-06-26T08:00:03Z Bombing raids, torpedoed ships, childhood memories flicker past as Auden wrestles with destruction and survival, and the dizzying scale of war when set against the complexities of individual experience. Poetry ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:06Z It’s more likely that the issue is the book-length Auden poem itself, which is simple in narrative structure yet complex in content, language and thought. Royal Ballet Debuts Liam Scarlett’s ‘The Age of Anxiety’ 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z One of her “most retweeted Subverts” updates Auden: “Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.” ‘How to Be Both,’ by Ali Smith 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z “My dear,” Auden gushed, “I never knew you were Jewish!” Richard Howard, acclaimed poet-translator, dies at 92 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z This extended section is certainly connected to Dürer: Moore and Mann both referenced him in their own work; Auden considered him in the lectures. A Wide-Roaming and Personal Meditation on Dürer and His Art 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z W. H. Auden, for example, introduced the sonnets. Sylvan Barnet, Scholar, Is Dead at 89; Edited Signet Shakespeare Paperbacks 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Even so, it's hard not to envy the schedules of the past: stop all the clocks, switch off the television, as Auden almost wrote. Mark Lawson: Poets on television 2010-10-14T07:00:00Z It isn't a question of whether a Bob Dylan song, or something by Grandmaster Flash is as good as a Keats ode or something by Auden. On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell – review 2012-07-13T21:55:02Z The truth is, Auden missed a phone call from Burgess on the eve of his disappearance; and Big Brother's 15-year "surveillance" of Orwell yielded less than 40 pages of material. British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith – review 2013-03-07T12:00:01Z The title comes from the Auden poem about four lonely friends, a woman and three men, who convene at a New York bar and have an all-night rap session about life. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Auden, hailed by Eudora Welty for “serious and complex” work, he wrote 18 novels driven by the gloomy, ambiguous detective Lew Archer. Can’t wait for “True Detective 2″? Dive into Ross Macdonald’s California noir masterpieces 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z In 1937, Auden's radio play Hadrian's Wall was broadcast from Newcastle, with incidental music by the composer. Free download of rediscovered Britten and Auden song 2013-07-15T17:08:35Z W. H. Auden, in his very honest 1947 essay about “Macbeth,” said that it is “difficult to say anything particularly new or revealing about” the play. Getting 'Macbeth' Right 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z One suspects that this precision of language was also what Auden was responding to when he read the book. William Boyd: rereading The Making of the English Landscape by WG Hoskins 2013-05-11T07:31:01Z Politics, race, acting, history, religion, arts, the environment, detective stories, whatever the new fiction is, plus poor old Auden and Walt Whitman, who have been patiently standing by for years. Bette Midler Is Still in the Thrall of 19th-Century Novelists 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z It was Auden who selected Mr. Hollander’s first collection of poems, “A Crackling of Thorns,” for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, which published it in 1958 with an introduction by Auden. John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z Auden and Chester Kallman to write the libretto, he asked for “a small group of characters, rather like the one in ‘Così fan tutte,”’ and was richly rewarded with characters stuffed with personality. Review: 'Elegy for Young Lovers' Gets Strong Staging at English National Opera 2010-05-04T11:30:00Z But the literalism with which he approaches the Auden poem leaves us only with a schematic outline of the story, and a period-piece effect that would have felt dated 30 years ago. Royal Ballet Debuts Liam Scarlett’s ‘The Age of Anxiety’ 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Such a smooth, substantial-sounding phrase — a bulwark against others’ intrusive questions and Auden’s own self-doubt. ‘The Habit of Art’ Review: Theater of the Creative Drive 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Then again, because they sound like Auden, what they say is mostly brilliant, beautiful, or both. On an alien shore 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z Auden, he realized that the more he read the opening lines, the more they resonated for him. Stop dissecting a poem as if it were a dead frog 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z In his review in The Times, Mr. Auden wrote, “No fiction I have read in the last five years has given me more joy.” Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z In "September 1st 1939" Auden's thoughts about impending war would have less force if expressed in isolation or abstractly. Why do writers drink? 2013-07-20T07:00:14Z Much has been made of these southerners shivering in the Geordie chill – W.H.Auden's Roman Wall Blues is an example, and good for children to learn and chant. Britain's best views: Hadrian's Wall 2010-04-06T13:21:00Z Though obviously expressing existential angst, Auden’s words eerily resemble a cautionary directive from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Perspective | In a time of crisis, poetry can help focus our fears and transform ‘noise into music’ 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Auden, therefore, went largely under the radar because he never joined the Party and tended to publish in establishment literary journals rather than the Daily Worker. British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith – review 2013-03-07T12:00:01Z Thus, as W. H. Auden wrote about the legacy of W. B. Yeats, “The words of a dead man / Are modified in the guts of the living.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z They married, and lived both together and separately in the Chelsea Hotel, on West Thirteenth Street, and in a Brooklyn Heights brownstone that they shared with W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, and others. The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Auden in Bennett's "The Habit of Art," a hugely persuasive performance despite the lack of physical resemblance between the two men. 'Harry Potter' actor Richard Griffiths dies at 65 2013-03-29T11:30:13Z As others in the world are suffering, wrote Auden, “someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.” Art ponders violence in new Dayna Hanson piece 2013-12-07T22:19:07Z Along with the living, some ghosts joined as well, including Truman Capote and W. H. Auden. Last Call at George Plimpton’s Party Pad 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z “I cherished a secret grudge against Auden,” Rich reflects in one essay, “not because he didn’t proclaim me a genius, but because he proclaimed so diminished a scope for poetry, including mine.” Two New Volumes by Adrienne Rich, Game-Changing Feminist, Poet and Essayist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Once, after I had recited Auden’s “The Fall of Rome” during his office hours, Derek said, “My god! Are you chewing gum? That was like an audition for ‘Guys and Dolls.’ The Problem with Poetry Students, and Other Lessons from Derek Walcott 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Auden wrote an essay on Tolkien, and he said something along the lines of, “Evil loves only itself.” ‘The Rings of Power’: Charlie Vickers on That Monster Revelation 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Still, part of the delight of the Auden/Kallman version comes from the way it so snugly hugs the familiar melody. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z In the play, both Auden and Britten discuss the habit of art – the need to sit down and work every day, even when the muse has gone walkabout. Alan Bennett: 'I've often wanted to be bolder' 2010-11-23T08:00:00Z Auden instructed poets to “sing of human unsuccess/in a rapture of distress.” ‘About Endlessness’ Review: Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Bridge gave him an impregnable technical command, and remaining in Britain introduced him to a startling band of homosexual men, led by WH Auden. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z Auden famously united minimum attention to his living conditions with maximum regard for routine and order. Review | ‘Lives of Houses’ is a lovely book to savor while you’re stuck at home 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z That face, a crevassed landscape that suggests sorrow and history, has the granitic grandeur of W. H. Auden in his later life. | 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy': ?Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,? With Gary Oldman - Review 2011-12-09T00:00:43Z We are in Virginia for a series of three lectures on the sea given by Auden in 1949. A Wide-Roaming and Personal Meditation on Dürer and His Art 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z About a 1972 meeting between the poet WH Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten, its structure is a bit of a problem and there are times when it feels a little thin. This week's new theatre 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Auden’s comment: “When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.” Edward St. Aubyn Wraps Serious Thoughts About Science in an Entertaining Package 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z At this stage one cannot pick up a new book from him without considering W. H. Auden’s observation that our judgments of books by established writers aren’t merely aesthetic. Jeffrey Eugenides’s Short Stories Salvage Wit From Life’s Grind 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z In our capital city, there is no Virginia Woolf Road, or Joseph Conrad Avenue, or Wittgenstein Square, or Auden Street – though Kirchstetten, the Austrian village where Auden spent his summers, has an Audenstrasse. The naming of Berlin 2011-03-18T12:27:49Z Auden, Nabokov fearlessly professes such “strong opinions” — the title of the previous collection of his nonfiction — that he’s always immense fun to read. Review | Nabokov unplugged: A new collection of his essays delivers unvarnished opinions 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Auden and Kallman had been lovers, but by this time lived together in chaste but loving companionship. A ?6,000 Auden bargain 2010-07-16T14:34:00Z Essentially dispensing with the didactic prologue, Mr. Kulick’s staging, using a translation by James and Tania Stern, with lyrics by W. H. Auden, tosses us quickly into the chaos of political upheaval. Theater Review: ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle,’ at Classic Stage Company 2013-05-31T02:00:01Z There are snippets of Shakespeare, Milton, Auden and many more sewn into the fabric of the book, with Theroux's found portrait of Johnson only the most animated literary presence. Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux – review 2013-05-24T11:01:01Z Her parents were both “superb entertainers” and their house was always full of literati, including Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg. In Two Memoirs, the Scars of Childhood Trauma Run Deep 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Auden moved on to much better things, and wrote the incomparable libretto to Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z Auden and Chester Kallman, is based on a suite of Hogarth paintings about a young man who squanders his inheritance and goes insane. Review: A ‘Rake’ Takes a Treasured Spot in the Opera Season 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z It owes nothing to Rupert Brooke, nor, surprisingly, to WH Auden. Poem of the week: Poem by John Cornford 2010-10-25T09:06:00Z The poet as a young man… WH Auden in London in January 1938, 18 months before the recently unearthed diary was started. Unseen WH Auden diary sheds light on famous poem and personal life 2013-06-26T08:00:03Z After several pages of the poem one is aware only of Auden. On an alien shore 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z Auden, Abbie Hoffman, Fillmore East and the Poetry Project, to graffiti artists — and, in recent years, to droves of New York University students. The East Village, Home of Punks and Poets: Here’s a Tour 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z And consider the story of a young Edward Albee slipping W. H. Auden a sheaf of poems, and the poet later saying to him, “Have you thought about becoming a playwright?” Five Poets That Yusef Komunyakaa Returns to Again and Again 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Indeed, WH Auden, another addict, draws several parallels between the Greek tragedy and the detective story. The mystery of theatre's missing detective plays 2011-07-28T13:34:14Z “Another time has other lives to live,” W. H. Auden once observed. Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell: Abstract Expressionist Lives 2011-07-08T15:56:48Z It's what Auden was getting at when he wrote of Yeats: "Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry." EM Forster's work tailed off once he finally had sex. Better that than a life of despair 2010-06-13T21:30:00Z As Auden put it after the death of Yeats: “Earth receive an honored guest.” The Art of Being Critical: Robert Hughes (1938-2012) 2012-08-07T22:19:53Z He added: “Mr. Lewis could presumably spout the hind legs off a donkey about these subjects, but how does this qualify him to follow Masefield, Auden, Graves and Heaney as the next Professor of Poetry?” When Titans Clash: Poets Edition 2010-06-15T15:38:00Z The music is Benjamin Britten’s early song cycle “On This Island,” with text by Auden, played with sensitivity by Mr. Ridgway and sung vividly by Gelsey Bell. Review: Richard Alston Dance Says Adieu in (Quiet) Character 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Auden starts with this conjuring of Melville, a failed writer, now making his living as a customs inspector in Manhattan. Call me the greatest American novel 2012-06-14T00:00:00Z The Auden arrived in the post at 10am, and I spent the next 45 minutes writing a catalogue description of it. A ?6,000 Auden bargain 2010-07-16T14:34:00Z They are families as written by Hans Christian Andersen with the poetry of Auden, both of whom used fairy-tale imagery to explain our suffering. A Cyclops With a Dating Profile and Other Fanciful Characters 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Auden did not want to endure a biography, and tried desperately but vainly to prevail against predatory life-writers. Literary biography: possibility and peril 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z W. H. Auden selected Rich’s volume and brought to the world’s attention Rich’s first thorny questions, embedded in lyrics, addressing a culture’s disengagement with its embattled selves. Adrienne Rich’s Poetic Transformations 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z W. H. Auden considered him as a human being utterly contemptible. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Here, alongside his co-stars, he’ll pull from Auden, Chekhov, du Maurier and more. Around Town for Dec. 2-8 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z And in The Habit of Art Bennett showed that WH Auden relied on the mechanical services of rent-boys and that Britten's art was inseparable from his romantic, if unconsummated, attachment to boys. Alan Bennett: a quiet radical 2012-10-12T09:38:00Z Auden’s review of a children’s tale called “The Hobbit.” 19 big holiday book gift ideas: mystery, history and local titles 2013-12-13T20:53:23Z He earned a rebuke from Auden after asking that his prize money be given to antiwar causes. Books: Hawaii and Nature Are Inspirations for W. S. Merwin 2010-07-01T02:20:00Z At the beginning, we read W. H. Auden’s comment, “There are no good books only for children.” Exhibition Review: Public Library’s ‘ABC of It’ Looks at Children’s Books 2013-06-20T22:19:09Z Auden line has it — doesn’t just deepen our understanding of the past, Jacobs argues; that deeper understanding increases our own “personal density.” Review | The key to a more tranquil mind? One author argues it’s all about revisiting books from the past. 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z He has said that he used his initials because doing so seemed serious and adult, in the manner of T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden. W. S. Merwin to Be Named Poet Laureate 2010-07-01T02:16:00Z In a sense his “February House,” a recent musical-theater work concerning a Brooklyn home shared by Benjamin Britten, W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers and Gypsy Rose Lee, posits a prehistory for his milieu. Music Review: Gabriel Kahane at Zankel Hall 2012-10-28T21:31:37Z Auden claimed it was “very probably the finest long poem written in English in this century.” Why isn’t David Jones famous? 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Auden's group were fascinated by Britten, and made rather a project of him. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z I opened to a longish review by WH Auden, heard someone at the door, assumed that this was the man from the embassy and continued reading. Gore Vidal remembered by Jason Epstein 2012-12-22T22:44:01Z Auden, the British novelist Jean Rhys did not want to be the subject of a biography and took steps to muddy her trail. The Life of Jean Rhys, a Uniquely Brilliant and Thorny Writer 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Auden is expecting a rent boy, not a journalist. ‘The Habit of Art’ Review: Theater of the Creative Drive 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z We can summon Auden here, from his poem “The Novelist”: “Among the Just/ Be just, among the Filthy filthy too.” Review | If a rich liar asked you to ghostwrite his memoir, would you do it? 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Among his teachers was the British writer Christopher Isherwood, who occasionally brought in his friends W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender. Michael S. Harper, Poet With a Jazz Pulse, Dies at 78 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The journal opens as Auden returns to New York from California in August 1939, having spent "the eleven happiest weeks of my life" with Kallman. Unseen WH Auden diary sheds light on famous poem and personal life 2013-06-26T08:00:03Z Rich’s first book of poems had been published in 1951, after being selected by W. H. Auden for publication in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Under “Prayers, Petitionary,” Auden includes a line from the camp novelist Ronald Firbank that should be embroidered on a sampler: “ ‘Heaven help me,’ she prayed, ‘to be decorative and to do right.’ ‘The Complete Works of Auden’ showcases writings beyond the poetry 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z His first collection, “A Mask for Janus,” was selected for the Yale Younger Poets Prize by Auden, whose style of long unspooling sentences had influenced the novice’s own verse. W. S. Merwin to Be Named Poet Laureate 2010-07-01T02:16:00Z Auden and William Carlos Williams, because it depicts, with brutal humor, a simple fact that most of us are loath to acknowledge: Suffering is incommunicable. Perspective | Art is a collective experience. It’s also a deeply private one. 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Auden, as well as less-celebrated characters, such as the homeless friend he celebrates as “an utterly independent human being, a sort of modern, urban Thoreau.” The beautiful mind of Oliver Sacks: How his knack for storytelling helped unlock the mysteries of the brain 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z I read Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” around that time and it helped me to see that I was not alone in feeling alone in my grief. Natasha Trethewey: By the Book 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z In the play within the play, the composer pays Auden a visit, seeking his help, though they haven’t seen each other in decades. ‘The Habit of Art’ Review: Theater of the Creative Drive 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Auden: "Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return." A short history of America's disaster: How 9/11 bred the endless war on terror 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Auden was excluded because he was an American citizen. No 10 turned down Larkin, Auden and other poets for laureate job 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Auden wrote, but Auden never met Lewis MacAdams. The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Poetry 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z “If you’re a ski resort and you care about climate change or you profess to care about climate change, it absolutely has to go beyond reducing your carbon footprint,” said Auden Schendler. Going beyond ‘green,’ activism new standard in ski industry 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Auden on Sept. 1, 1939: “There is no such thing as the State / And no one exists alone; / Hunger allows no choice / To the citizen or the police; / We must love one another or die.” Art and activism power a starry Hammer Museum gala 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Auden, who would become one of my favorite writers. Review | Auden was more than a great poet. Two books remind us why. 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Auden was again under consideration, according to newspaper reports, and apparently the bookies' favourite. No 10 turned down Larkin, Auden and other poets for laureate job 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z In his quarantine diary, “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” author Alexander McCall Smith writes lyrics, reads Auden and watches “Brideshead Revisited.” Review: How Douglas Stuart subverts the Victorian coming-of-age plot 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Auden, who felt it all coming in 1939, and then a few lines from me about an arresting moment I experienced in Berlin on Holocaust Memorial Day, more than a decade ago. Too much reality: Putin's Ukraine invasion summons Europe's dark past 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Auden wrote, the little children die in the streets. The Ukraine catastrophe and how we got here: Chronicle of a war foretold 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z What’s more, they form the capstone to the monumental “The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose,” which includes six previously issued volumes gathering all the British American poet’s essays, talks, plays and juvenilia. Review | Auden was more than a great poet. Two books remind us why. 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z McWhirter worried that if Auden were selected this could "bring disgrace upon the appointment" and this would reflect on the Queen herself. No 10 turned down Larkin, Auden and other poets for laureate job 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Auden, who came to the office in his slippers. Jason Epstein, publishing executive who shaped literary tastes, dies at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Auden once said, “to this day, I have never understood exactly what the objective correlative is.” Review | T.S. Eliot may have been flawed, but a new book reminds of his greatness on the page 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Once he got there, he traveled to Belgium by train to see the painting that inspired this, Auden’s masterpiece. Poem: Musée des Beaux Arts 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Not only did Robert teach a course on Auden at Manhattan’s New School, but his Greenwich Village apartment also housed copies of all the poet’s books, as well as much associated material. Review | Auden was more than a great poet. Two books remind us why. 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z You reference Dickinson and Auden, and it's clear that you're going for something stylistically as well as academically. A neuroscientist explains why striving for efficiency is a bad idea 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Auden in reference to human mortality: “Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one.” In 1997 Jim Isermann slipcovered a Minimalist cube. The rest is queer art history 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z “How everything turns away / Quite leisurely from the disaster,” Auden wrote. On 9/11, Robert Ezelle monitored the Western skies. 20 years later, as he leads Washington’s pandemic response, he sees parallels 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Auden Schendler is the senior vice president of sustainability at the Aspen Skiing Company, the chairman of the board of the group Protect Our Winters and the author of “Getting Green Done.” Opinion | Worrying About Your Carbon Footprint Is Exactly What Big Oil Wants You to Do 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Through Robert’s influence, I began to discover the breadth of Auden’s genius. Review | Auden was more than a great poet. Two books remind us why. 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Auden’s famous 1937 poem “Spain” about the civil war there includes this memorable refrain: “Yesterday all the past. . . . But to-day the struggle.” Opinion | Some of Trump’s foreign policies are worth sustaining. Biden should keep that in mind. 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Tee Higgins had six catches for 78 yards, Boyd had six catches for 67 yards and Auden Tate had seven receptions for 65 yards. Bengals start fast, find combination to close out Titans 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Auden in his poem "In Memory of Ernst Toller" wrote: The politics of cultural despair: That's what's killing us, not Donald Trump 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Auden Tate may be growing unhappy with the organization after being inactive for the second game of the season against the Cleveland Browns. Bengals should let Auden Tate seek 'opportunities elsewhere' if they're not going to use him, agent says 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z While the meanings of Auden’s poems can sometimes be elusive, nearly all of them contain lines and passages that take your breath away. Review | Auden was more than a great poet. Two books remind us why. 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Auden remarked that Kafka was to our age as Dante was to his, the Middle Ages: the supreme expression of its spirit. Perspective | How to cope in an anxious age: Try Hitchcock, Munch and Poe 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” a poem that warns, “We must love one another or die.” Perspective | The poetry that speaks best to the pandemic 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z “Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom,” is how WH Auden put it. Covid-19 is the dress rehearsal for 21st century global crises | Stephen Marche 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Today was Auden — my major literary enthusiasm — and a few of Shakespeare’s sonnets. What Alexander McCall Smith is reading, hearing and watching in quarantine 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z At other times, Auden’s phrases approach the surreal: “In the infected sinus, and the eyes of stoats” or “A crack in the teacup opens/ A lane to the land of the dead.” Review | Auden was more than a great poet. Two books remind us why. 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Auden would later call “The Age of Anxiety.” Perspective | How to cope in an anxious age: Try Hitchcock, Munch and Poe 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Auden of that endless autumn, but rather that “it managed to last for four centuries without creativity, warmth, or hope.” Opinion | The Age of Decadence 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Auden wrote — impart not only hope but the power of the sacred. America: The land of make-believe 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Auden’s voice is calming and humane and his words still resonate with us. What Alexander McCall Smith is reading, hearing and watching in quarantine 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z In the second, American half of his life, Auden grew “ashamed” — his word — of several of his most revered works of the 1930s, calling them “dishonest” rhetorical trash. Review | Auden was more than a great poet. Two books remind us why. 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z “He wanted me to pay attention, too. Auden says that paying attention is a form of love; well, then, I tried to love Saul Bellow.” Elisabeth Sifton, revered book editor and publisher, dies at 80 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z Whether we are waiting for Christians or barbarians, a renaissance or the Singularity, the dilemma that Auden described is now not Rome’s but ours. Opinion | The Age of Decadence 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Auden called the 1930s a “low dishonest decade,” and the same could well be said of the 2010s. With a new decade — a new hope? Reasons for optimism in a disordered world 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z Auden’s noble picture, in which the poets fight the mute ogre, can’t survive the shock of history. The Field Guide to Tyranny 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Mendelson notes that the poem was actually begun on Sept. 2 in New Jersey — at the home of the dentist father of Auden’s partner Chester Kallman — and finished by Sept. 7. Review | Auden was more than a great poet. Two books remind us why. 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Auden, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and other luminaries who made up her parents’ social circle. Elisabeth Sifton, revered book editor and publisher, dies at 80 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z —The Cincinnati Bengals placed wide receiver Auden Tate on injured reserve due to a sprained left MCL. NFL notebook: Eagles' Jeffery reportedly out for season 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Receiver Auden Tate left with a knee injury and could be done for the season. Familiar story: Bengals can’t dent goal line when it matters 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z “The Ogre does what ogres can, / Deeds quite impossible for Man,” Auden wrote in 1968, after the Soviet tanks rolled into Prague. The Field Guide to Tyranny 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z According to another revelatory note, Auden actually planned to drop his most tender lyric, “Lay your sleeping head, my love,” from his collected shorter poems, until Kallman insisted he keep it in. Review | Auden was more than a great poet. Two books remind us why. 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Dalton’s pass went off Auden Tate’s hands and to Ward, who streaked down the sideline for Cleveland’s first defensive TD since Oct. Browns stay in playoff hunt, ground out 27-19 win over Cincy 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Auden, who once called him “lucid, learned, witty and, even when he is most savage, just and in good taste.” John Simon, theater and film critic with an artful and vicious pen, dies at 94 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z “Poetry makes nothing happen,” W. H. Auden wrote. The Art of War in “Theater of Operations” 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Receiver Auden Tate was taken off the field on a cart after bending his neck during a 20-yard catch in the fourth quarter. Winless Bengals tie club mark for futility, Steelers up next 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z In the 1950s and ’60s, Auden hoped he might be regarded as “a minor Atlantic Goethe” even as his poetry grew loose and talky, his diction occasionally recondite. Review | Auden was more than a great poet. Two books remind us why. 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Second-year receiver Auden Tate had a breakout game, catching five passes - one more than he had all last season - for a team-leading 91 yards. At the bottom: Bengals only 0-6 team in the league 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Second-year receiver Auden Tate had a breakout game, catching five passes — one more than he had all last season — for a team-leading 91 yards. At the bottom: Bengals only 0-6 team in the league 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z But, of course, things make poetry and art happen: the death of W. B. Yeats, in Auden’s case, and the causes, events, and consequences of human suffering, in that of “Theater of Operations.” The Art of War in “Theater of Operations” 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Let’s start with Auden Tate who had three receptions for 26 yards and a touchdown in Week 5 against the Cardinals. FANTASY PLAYS: Players to add include Minshew, Cousins 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z It is, basically, how Ezra Pound wrote his so-called translations of the Chinese poet Li Po, and Auden his versions of the Icelandic Eddas. How to Read “Gilgamesh” 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Receiver Auden Tate is the only other Bengal listed on the report, designated as doubtful with a knee injury. Seahawks list three as out, but Clowney, Ansah and Metcalf all are ready to play against Bengals Sunday 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z To coincide with the release of the film, Faber published a pamphlet of 10 of Auden’s poems, titled Tell Me the Truth About Love: there were reports of sales of more than 275,000 copies. The right poem for the wrong time: WH Auden’s September 1, 1939 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Bengals Wide receiver Auden Tate sustained a left knee injury in the first half and didn’t return. Daniel Jones Shows Promise in a Giants Preseason Win 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z WR Auden Tate suffered a left knee injury in the first half and didn’t return. Jones leads TD drive in Giants’ 25-23 win over Bengals 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z WH Auden wrote, in an essay on Lewis Carroll: “There are good books which are only for adults, because their comprehension presupposes adult experiences, but there are no good books which are only for children.” Story time: the five children’s books every adult should read 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Auden, it adds a Faustian framework to the 18th century William Hogarth lithographs about a naïf falling prey to the temptations of the big city. Review: Stravinsky's exceedingly slow ‘Rake's Progress’ from West Hollywood to Ojai 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z In the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral, Auden’s poem “Funeral Blues” – the one that begins “Stop all the clocks” – is read at the funeral of a gay character, played by Simon Callow. The right poem for the wrong time: WH Auden’s September 1, 1939 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z As her letters make clear, she was at loose ends at the time, quoting Rod McKuen and W. H. Auden, subsisting on cigarettes and coffee, careening between nihilism, activism, and radicalism. The Campaign Volunteer Whose Brilliance Haunted Robert F. Kennedy 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z His friends included CS Lewis, a fellow academic and author of the Narnia novels, and among his students was the poet WH Auden. JRR Tolkien’s son ‘sexually abused by one of father’s friends’ 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z The world is a cruel place sometimes 😔 Stephen and Auden were wonderful people and fantastic musicians. Both members of band Her's die in US crash 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Auden, in the same pages, dismissed it as a “publicity stunt”. WS Merwin obituary 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Most famously and significantly, in the aftermath of 9/11, many American newspapers reprinted Auden’s poem in its entirety: it was widely circulated and discussed online and in print. The right poem for the wrong time: WH Auden’s September 1, 1939 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z A student of Auden and Roethke at Bennington College, she taught us how to write and be passionate about poetry. Opinion | How College Changed My Life 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z The book drew from ancient myth — a key touchstone for Graves as well — and was selected by Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Prize . W.S. Merwin, poet of austere lyricism who twice won the Pulitzer Prize, dies at 91 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z A formative award in the field, the prize was judged in those years by W. H. Auden. W.S. Merwin, Poet of Life’s Evanescence, Dies at 91 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The poems were very much in Auden’s style, which gradually loosened through four more collections. WS Merwin obituary 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Auden had arrived in New York earlier that year with his friend and fellow writer Christopher Isherwood. The right poem for the wrong time: WH Auden’s September 1, 1939 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Auden for the coveted Yale Series of Younger Poets competition and was published in 1952. W.S. Merwin, prize-winning poet of nature, dies at 91 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Auden, Chester Kallman and Christopher Isherwood, crucial touchstones for a life of the mind as well as the flesh. Review: Christophe Honoré's 'Sorry Angel' is an exquisitely funny and bittersweet gay love story 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z That drew censure from Auden, who, in an open letter in The New York Review of Books, said that he considered the politicizing of the award unseemly. W.S. Merwin, Poet of Life’s Evanescence, Dies at 91 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z “Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry,” Auden says in his eulogy for Yeats. How Iran’s Greatest Director Makes Art of Moral Ambiguity 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z In April 1939, Auden had met an 18-year-old, Chester Kallman, 14 years his junior, who was to become his life partner: in the new world, Auden was making a new life for himself. The right poem for the wrong time: WH Auden’s September 1, 1939 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z The affecting play of simple words recalls Auden in his elegies, or, in another way, Leonard Cohen’s song lyrics. How to Read the Good Books 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z For instance Auden of course famously rejected sort of all those poems later. Deborah Landau Reads Anne Sexton 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Here all depends on the “fluent gestures” in “elevating facts from the prosaic to the poetic”—a point that the critic Clive James stressed in his essay on Auden in Commentary in December, 1973. Remembering W. H. Auden, by Hannah Arendt 1975-01-13T05:00:00Z Receiver Auden Tate was promoted from the practice squad. Bengals come out of bye missing top receiver A.J. Green 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The Bengals waived receiver Auden Tate to open a roster spot. Bengals add CB Russell with secondary depleted by injuries 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The sign of a free society, Auden thought, was that it leaves us each alone, to imagine and, to the limited extent we can, to make our own Eden. What Can We Learn from Utopians of the Past? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z WH Auden’s work continues to speak to those who choose to listen; he changes the way we see things and offers hope. Books to give us hope: Philip Pullman, Jacqueline Wilson, Rose McGowan and more share their picks 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z “Tutor: ‘And what are you going to do, Mr. Auden, when you leave the university?’ Remembering W. H. Auden, by Hannah Arendt 1975-01-13T05:00:00Z Auden and Christopher Isherwood, and Honoré's intellectually capacious script doesn't treat these references as digressive or ornamental. Cannes: Passion and politics merge in the exquisite doomed romances of 'Ash Is Purest White,' 'Cold War' 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z Auden and Christopher Isherwood, and Honoré’s intellectually capacious script doesn’t treat these references as digressive or ornamental. Cannes: Passion and politics merge in the exquisite doomed romances of 'Ash Is Purest White,' 'Cold War' 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z W. H. Auden, in a once famous essay, divided all imaginative people into Utopians and Arcadians—makers of the New Jerusalem we want, or seekers of the lost Eden we’ve been expelled from. What Can We Learn from Utopians of the Past? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z In the seventh, they got quarterback Logan Woodside from Toledo, guard Rod Taylor from Mississippi, and receiver Auden Tate from Florida State. Surprise! Bengals’ draft puts the emphasis on defense 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z Auden: ‘I am going to be a poet.’ Remembering W. H. Auden, by Hannah Arendt 1975-01-13T05:00:00Z English professor David Anderson often began lectures by reading a poem by Auden or T.S. Millennials Hit the Great Books 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Hence the title, taken from a passage in Auden’s poem “September 1, 1939” about the “error bred in the bone / Of each woman and each man.” A Brief History of Gay Theater, in Three Acts 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z I think of us as trying to, as W. H. Auden wrote, “give back to the son the mother’s richness of feeling.” Opinion | A New Model of Masculinity 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z Auden felt the hopes of a “low dishonest decade” expiring and compared his generation to children “lost in a haunted wood.” Opinion | How can America overcome its egotism? 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Auden: ‘You don’t understand. I am going to be a great poet.’ Remembering W. H. Auden, by Hannah Arendt 1975-01-13T05:00:00Z The success of the Auden course also suggests something else: that dwindling reading lists, shrinking attention spans and falling expectations at universities around the country aren’t inevitable. Millennials Hit the Great Books 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Auden, a poet, shows these drives as divergent; Kramer, a dramatist, looks at how they converge. A Brief History of Gay Theater, in Three Acts 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z “I think it was Auden who talks about the qualities of the writer being the undertow,” she said. Amy Tan visiting Seattle to read from ‘Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Auden wrote those words the day World War II began. Opinion | The evil entering your home via cable and Internet 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Auden was never arrogant except when he was provoked by some vulgarity; then he protected himself with the rather abrupt rudeness characteristic of English intellectual life. Remembering W. H. Auden, by Hannah Arendt 1975-01-13T05:00:00Z Auden, “I did not and do not know why.” North Korea, Puerto Rico, Aaron Hernandez: Your Friday Briefing 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z “If we’re running a route this supposed to be five steps, run five steps,” wide receiver Auden Tate said. Florida State’s offense rallying around new quarterback 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z WH Auden’s villanelle If I could tell you is recalled in the last line, where the gloved hand appears “as though it intends to stay”. Poem of the week: Life is a Dream by John Ashbery 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z This is “revenge in excess of the injury,” to borrow a phrase from W.H Auden. Perspective | Colin Kaepernick blacklist risks hurting the NFL’s real priority: Its bottom line 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z In the case of Auden, as in the case of Brecht, inverted hypocrisy served to hide an irresistible inclination toward being good and doing good—something that both were ashamed to admit, let alone proclaim. Remembering W. H. Auden, by Hannah Arendt 1975-01-13T05:00:00Z Auden Tate emerged as a threat in the red zone. Florida State hopes Murray, Tate emerge at wide receiver 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z “Auden always said one must celebrate one’s birthday,” he says. My life with Oliver Sacks: ‘He was the most unusual person I had ever known’ 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z It regularly featured contributions from great writers and polemicists like Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, WH Auden and more recently Zadie Smith. New York Review of Books editor Robert B Silvers dies - BBC News 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Mishra’s title, and coinage, echoes W. H. Auden’s “Age of Anxiety,” the name for the post-A-bomb forties and fifties—which reappear comically in the new accounts as a heyday of middle-class buoyancy and social mobility. Are Liberals on the Wrong Side of History? 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z This seems plausible for Auden, because he finally became a Christian, but it may be a shock at first to hear it about Brecht. Remembering W. H. Auden, by Hannah Arendt 1975-01-13T05:00:00Z Parking her husband elsewhere – he had blossomed into an alcoholic – McCullers became housemates with the likes of WH Auden, Salvador Dali, Harper’s Bazaar editor George Davis and burlesque performer and author Gypsy Rose Lee. Carson McCullers at 100: a century of American suffering 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Some were limited editions of works by the authors he knew, among them Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, W. S. Merwin, Auden and Ginsberg. Robert A. Wilson, 94, Whose Bookshop Was Writers’ Sanctuary, Dies 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Auden had said earlier in the poem that soldiers fighting in the Spanish Civil War must engage in “necessary murder” and this proved he was a dilettante “warmonger”. World in crisis or back to normal soon? I think I know... | Nick Cohen 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z They are, to borrow from WH Auden’s famous poem September 1, 1939, “ironic points of light” that “flash out wherever the Just / exchange their messages”. Words for solace and strength: poems to counter the election fallout – and beyond 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Auden, instead, became a Christian; that is, he left the train of History altogether. Remembering W. H. Auden, by Hannah Arendt 1975-01-13T05:00:00Z Its barebones website — which launched on Sept. 30, according to Internet domain registration records — currently features the poem “September 1, 1939,” written by Auden on the day that World War II began. Anti-Trump Ad Warns Ohio Voters With Mushroom Cloud 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Connolly’s purpose was to make a lasting and decisive evaluation of his gifted contemporaries, writers such as Auden, Joyce, Proust, Firbank, Woolf, Huxley, Hemingway, Faulkner and Waugh. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 38 – Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connolly (1938) 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Although necessary murders are what soldiers commit, Auden came to agree and disowned his poem for suggesting the ends justify the means. World in crisis or back to normal soon? I think I know... | Nick Cohen 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z In a 1952 Life profile, W. H. Auden was quoted calling him “the best English novelist alive.” The Novelist of Human Unknowability 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Auden, calling the contemporary American moment “the age of anxiety.” Children’s crusade: Trump’s “movement” is a bunch of whiny, frightened infants who can’t handle democracy 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z As Auden wrote of Yeats’s death: “he became his admirers”. Angela Carter: Far from the fairytale 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Auden’s line: “We must love one another, or die,” as atomic blasts filled the screen. Clinton Republicans 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z It was the day W. H. Auden died, a fact that seemed to portend the lush bohemian life that followed. Pyrotechnic Party of Legend, Killed Off by Social Media 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z Like the various luminaries who visited the front—Langston Hughes, W. H. Auden, Dorothy Parker, and others—many of the volunteers had a literary bent. The American Soldiers of the Spanish Civil War 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z For every “coterie” of Audens, Spenders and Isherwoods, there is a chorus of George Orwells, Roy Campbells and Dylan Thomases, spitting vitriol. From gay conspiracy to queer chic: the artists and writers who changed the world 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Mr Roethke is instantly recognisable as a good poet,” wrote Auden in the Saturday Review of Literature. Museum asks for help finding 1,000 first editions of Theodore Roethke debut 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z In his poem “As I Walked Out One Evening,” W. H. Auden wrote: “And down by the brimming river/ I heard a lover sing/ Under an arch of the railway:/ ‘Love has no ending … .’” In Betsy Podlach’s Sensual Portraits, an Undercurrent of Love 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places WH Auden “How important is it that we no longer write diaries?” the playwright James Graham asks me. Master of the house: why we should fight for truly private spaces 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The day Neville Chamberlain and his French counterpart, Edouard Daladier, signed the Munich Agreement, Sept. 30, 1938, is perhaps the most emblematic moment of what poet W. H. Auden called a “low, dishonest decade.” What the 'Munich LessoWhat the 'Munich Lesson' Can Teach Us About Fighting ISISn' Can Teach Us About Defeating ISIS 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z I used to see W. H. Auden there, hiding in the mist. A writer of monumental appetites and an even bigger ego 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Auden, in his elegy for Yeats, spoke of the “raw towns that we believe and die in.” Intifada Childhood 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Sitting next to a volume of Auden’s poems on the floor is a black dog watching his muse expectantly. In Betsy Podlach’s Sensual Portraits, an Undercurrent of Love 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z Leon Trotsky and WH Auden lived here, as did James Fenimore Cooper, author of Last of the Mohicans. St Marks Place: the many lives of America's coolest street 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z In 1955 he told the poet WH Auden that discovering Finnish had been like "entering a complete wine-cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before". Kullervo: Tolkien's fascination with Finland - BBC News 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z There’s a line from Auden in his elegy to Yeats where he says Ireland hurt him into poetry. Louise Penny: Bestselling Mystery Discusses Her New Novel 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Auden said that Beerbohm resembled Thurber, but he more resembles another Anglo-Jewish Anglophile, S. J. Perelman. The Diminutive Genius of Max Beerbohm 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z To keep a conscience, Auden thought, one must at least imagine a soul. A Point of View: Why are opponents of gay marriage so sure they're right? - BBC News 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z “Nude Photos of WH Auden Found!” bawls the headline next to a picture of the poet reclining naked with a chaste exclamation mark over his manhood. John Waters: 'I want to be despised' 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Auden and held the chair of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1994-1999. Poet James Fenton named 2015 PEN Pinter winner 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z But their efforts were not successful and Mr. Auden died in November 2013. Company Creates Bioethics Panel on Trial Drugs 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Auden, with more irascibility than one might expect, pointed out that this was a poisonous doctrine—the idea is to juggle golden balls that weigh something. The Diminutive Genius of Max Beerbohm 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Auden turned to faith because, by making the individual's inner life paramount, it seemed a form of dissent from a mass society devoted to warping all those outer selves. A Point of View: Why are opponents of gay marriage so sure they're right? - BBC News 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Auden, or the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, where Harriet Beecher Stowe preached and where fleeing slaves sought refuge. Hillary Clinton bases campaign headquarters in cool Brooklyn neighborhood 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The Democratic governor announced Friday that he’s nominating state Rep. Auden Grogins to the state Superior Court. Malloy nominates Bridgeport lawmaker to bench 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Mentor published “New World Writing,” with work by writers like W. H. Auden, Jorge Luis Borges, and Heinrich Böll; Grove published Evergreen Review, a showcase of some of the most advanced writing in the world. The Birth of Pulp Fiction | The New Yorker 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Declining to try, out of a false sense of decorum, was, in Auden’s view, the real English vice. The Diminutive Genius of Max Beerbohm 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z “His sins were scarlet, but his books were read,” to borrow a W. H. Auden quip. Can we save Cliff Huxtable from Bill Cosby? She said: "Under Milk Wood changed my life. I think Dylan Thomas, Auden and TS Eliot changed everything." Dylan Thomas poem 'changed my life' 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Much as Auden had before him, Berryman understood how the fears of the day permeated the psyche. Remembering John Berryman, a Giant of American Poetry In his 1 September, 1939, on the eve of another war, WH Auden wrote: “I and the public know/ that all schoolchildren learn,/ Those to whom evil is done/ Do evil in return.” Isis and Syria: ‘Western hypocrisies have been driving support for extremism’ 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Auden checked his watch constantly, making sure each task filled no more than its allotted moment. How to create order like creative people 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z As WH Auden wrote after Freud's death, "To us he is no more a person / now but a whole climate of opinion". Just what exactly is Freudian? 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Auden passed away from stage 4 melanoma in November 2013. Merck's Keytruda Surprise Winner In U.S. PD-1 Inhibitor Race 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Mortality has reverberated through his life, as Auden says, like "the sound of distant thunder at a picnic". Ian McEwan: 'I'm only 66 – my notebook is still full of ideas' 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z Several of the Irish artist's paintings are held in collections around the city and nationally, including portraits of playwright Samuel Beckett, poet W H Auden, FBI director J Edgar Hoover and musician Sir Paul McCartney. Pop art dinner party gifted to city 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z A history book is essential if only, to paraphrase Auden, to teach the unhappy Present to recite the Past. Back to school, Mr Gove: authors choose their GCSE set texts 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Auden was a melanoma patient who unsuccessfully lobbied a drug company to provide him with medication that had proved beneficial to half of patients in early clinical trials. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z "There are experimental drugs out there that can and do save lives, and access needs to be expanded," said Auden's widow, Amy Auden of Lone Tree, Colorado. States move to expand experimental drugs for some 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z “There are experimental drugs out there that can and do save lives, and access needs to be expanded,” said Auden’s widow, Amy Auden of Lone Tree, Colorado. States move to expand experimental drugs for some 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z “Given that there was something on this earth to help Nick, we needed to do everything in our power to try to get it,” said Auden, now a widowed mother of three. ‘Right to Try’ laws spur debate over dying patients’ access to experimental drugs Borrowing from a W. H Auden poem, he wrote: | Geoffrey W. Marcy: Finder of New Worlds 2014-05-12T21:37:37Z Nick Auden, a Denver father of three with melanoma who was able to gather 500,000 signatures for a petition for compassionate use of a Merck drug, passed away last November without getting the treatment. Crowdsourcing medical decisions: Ethicists worry Josh Hardy case may set bad precedent 2014-03-23T23:47:00Z Auden read one of them this way: "All we are not stares back at what we are." Life At The Crossroads 2014-02-25T05:00:00Z Among the evidence considered by Judge Midonick was an Auden poem that declared: Millard L. Midonick, Surrogate to Children and Auden, Dies at 99 2014-01-26T03:37:06Z “Not a day goes by where it doesn’t haunt me,” Auden said. ‘Right to Try’ laws spur debate over dying patients’ access to experimental drugs She read about William Morris’s trip, and Auden’s. Alice Munro: “The Bear Came over the Mountain.” 2013-10-14T04:00:00Z Auden assisted in publishing the pamphlet Authors Take Sides on the Spanish Civil War, a collection of literary opinions—including those of Cyril Connolly, T.S. Which Side Are You On? 2013-09-04T10:28:00Z His erudite writing for conservative magazines like National Review and The Weekly Standard is laced with references to church history and theology and to Christian writers like G. K. Chesterton and W. H. Auden. Beliefs: A Conservative Catholic Now Backs Same-Sex Marriage 2013-08-23T18:01:18Z As the poet W H Auden wrote: "Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return." Face-to-face with the 'heart-eating cannibal' 2013-07-05T09:17:08Z For Amy Auden, of Lone Tree, Colo., the decision to publicly push for the new law in her state was deeply personal. ‘Right to Try’ laws spur debate over dying patients’ access to experimental drugs To Auden Schendler, vice president of Aspen Skiing Co. and a close friend, the plan was “classic Randy,” in that it confronted unsustainable practices with a realistic solution. Brother of Sen. Mark Udall missing 2013-07-02T22:40:04Z Auden: “ was my North, my South, my East and West,” he lamented online. Planetary science: Lost and found 2013-06-06T15:01:29Z Auden put it, “to break bread with the dead.” The Return of Ruthless Richard 2013-02-09T05:00:00Z In the ordinary run of things, "it was not an important failure", as Auden put it in Musée des Beaux Arts. Aaron Swartz: cannon fodder in the war on internet freedom 2013-01-20T00:01:08Z W. H. Auden describes the emergence of a distinct American voice as responding to “a feeling that the current modes of expression are no longer capable of dealing with their real concerns.” The Great American Novel and the search for group cohesion 2012-09-18T21:15:00.200Z One of the most profound summaries of this duality that I’ve seen comes not from a researcher but from a poet, W. H. Auden. Reclaiming the sacred gift: A postscript on humanities and science 2012-08-17T03:45:03.070Z The poet WH Auden evoked the fears that inspired the pioneers of European unity. Austerity is undermining Europe's grand vision 2012-07-03T20:00:40Z In this densely researched and drily elegant book, Satan is pursued through Augustine, Marlowe, Milton, Shelley, Blake, Goethe, Ambrose Bierce, Auden, and CS Lewis's Screwtape, tales of self-mortification and witch-hunting, painting and the cinema. Non-fiction reviews roundup 2012-06-22T07:00:01Z But Auden didn’t mean that poetry was not necessary or even not essential for something to happen. If we remember more, can we read deeper-and create better? Part II. 2012-06-13T17:15:00.173Z Auden, author Carson McCullers, and the composer Benjamin Britten; all creative geniuses in their own right. The Virtues of Having Strange People Close By 2012-05-17T07:26:25Z Auden, by his nature, was always going to be the more loving one, so he’d tried to make the longing admirable and desirable. Maile Meloy: “The Proxy Marriage.” 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z The tour starts at the longtime locus of the neighborhood’s poetry scene, St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, where W. H. Auden was once a parishioner and a plaque memorializes Ginsberg. In East Village, Audio Tour Retraces Poets? Haunts 2012-03-31T15:06:18Z Britten, Pears, Auden and Mann have fled the conflagration in Europe. | Connecticut: A Review of ?February House? at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven 2012-03-04T00:48:11Z Beatniks like Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs and writers like Norman Mailer and W. H. Auden, lived in its low-rent tenements and row houses. Historic District Plans in East Village Stir Opposition 2012-01-21T03:30:07Z "You wish that this would be completed," Auden said. Analysis: New asbestos charges point to reserve woes 2011-07-28T15:07:42Z But what did Auden know, padding around in filthy carpet slippers, filling teacups with cigarette butts? Maile Meloy: “The Proxy Marriage.” 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z Concrete, as W. H. Auden so acutely observed, desexes the space it occupies. Alexander McCall Smith on Gaborone, Botswana 2011-05-29T14:00:00Z Isherwood went to Germany to be with his friend, the poet WH Auden. Life is a Cabaret 2011-03-19T00:22:11Z "How well they understood its human position," Auden wrote. Sachin and Murali: two old masters still in their prime 2011-03-01T15:19:39Z W. H. Auden No. 3: It’s worth looking hard at the stained-glass windows; they’re full of surprises. | Closer to Heaven 2010-08-05T15:33:00Z A full description of this building is given in Canon Auden's history of the town. Vanishing England It is a sequence which is not afraid to take on Stevens, or Milton and Hardy and Auden. Deadly Pollen Auden's father had offered to pay for his son to have what we would now call a gap year. Life is a Cabaret 2011-03-19T00:22:11Z |
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