41. Wystan Hugh Auden - Funeral Blues Text, discussion of the correct title, and scans of the original published version of this Auden poem. http://www.wussu.com/poems/whafb.htm

poetry anthology writings weed's home page Funeral Blues (Song IX / from Two Songs for Hedli Anderson) Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling in the sky the message He is Dead, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever, I was wrong. The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun. Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; For nothing now can ever come to any good. This poem can be found under at least four titles. There is some confusion and much discussion on Usenet about the original title of this poem. The following information is mainly taken from newsgroup postings. The title "Funeral Blues" was used in a publication 3 years after Auden's death, presumably with the knowledge and permission of Auden's literary executors, amongst whom was Edward Mendelson, unchallenged in his role as Auden's chief editor, biographer and critic. Professor Mendelson himself used that title for the poem when editing "Collected Poems" (1976). 'Auden reprinted the poem under various titles, as was his habit. In "Collected Shorter Poems" it appears as one of the 12 songs. But he also pub'd it as "Funeral Blues." I am also pretty sure the poem first appeared in the verse play "The Ascent of F-6" which Auden wrote with Christopher Isherwood.'

42. As I Walked Out One Evening Text of the poem. http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/poems/auden1.html

As I Walked Out One Evening

43. W. H. Auden An introduction to the poet by Professor Eiichi Hishikawa, Faculty of Letters, Kobe University. http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/auden.htm

My Poet Pages Poet Links W. H. Auden (1907-73) That night when joy began Our narrowest veins to flush, We waited for the flash Of morning's levelled gun. But morning let us pass, And day by day relief Outgrows his nervous laugh, Grown credulous of peace, As mile by mile is seen No trespasser's reproach, And love's best glasses reach No fields but are his own. November 1931 ["Five Songs" II Collected Poems Bibliography Bahlke, G. W., The Later Auden Bloomfield, B. C., and Edward Mendelson, W. H. Auden: A Bibliography 1924-1969 Bold, Alan ed., W. H. Auden: The Far Interior Callan, Edward, Auden: A Carnival of Intellect Carpenter, Humphrey, W. H. Auden: A Biography Farnan, D. J., Auden in Love Gingerich, M. E., W. H. Auden: A Reference Guide Greenberg, Herbert, Quest for the Necessary: W. H. Auden and the Dilemma of Divided Consciousness Haffenden, John, ed., W. H. Auden: The Critical Heritage Hecht, Anthony, The Hidden Law: The Poetry of W. H. Auden (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993) Levy, Alan

44. Auden At Home By James Fenton | The New York Review Of Books An article on Auden s poetry by James Fenton in The New York Review of Books. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/127

45. Auden, W.H. (Ftrain.com) Ftrain.com. PEEK. Ftrain.com is the website of Paul Ford and his pseudonyms. There is a Facebook group. And sixwords-only Twitter posts. See also Gary Benchley, Rock Star, a novel; http://www.ftrain.com/WHAuden.html

46. W.H.Auden's Poetry Text of In Praise of Limestone and three short poems. http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/~arb/speleo/auden.html

W.H. Auden's Poetry Below are four of W.H.Auden's poem which seem to be inspired by the karst landscape of the Yorkshire Dales . The third of the short poems reminds me of Jingling Pot in West Kingsdale (see the second photograph Auden made some changes to the Limestone poem late in life; it is the revised version that is presented here. If you are interested in the original then mail me at arb sat.dundee.ac.uk. More Auden information can be found at The Auden Society Three Short Poems "The underground roads Are, as the dead prefer them, Always tortuous." "When he looked the cave in the eye, Hercules Had a moment of doubt." "Leaning out over The dreadful precipice, One contemptuous tree." (C) W.H. Auden Other Poetry If you have come here looking for the poem used in Four Weddings and a Funeral you should try University of Gent, Belgium Other than that, any good bookshop will have books of Auden poetry! Back to Caves and Caving

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48. A Selection Of British Poetry Many Auden poems, including Canzone , As We Like It , The Labyrinth and selections from Songs and Musical Pieces http://www.daimi.au.dk/~sorsha/lit/WHAuden.html

A Selection of British Poetry W. H. Auden From Songs and other musical pieces. XXX. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead, Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong. The stars are not wanted now; put out every one: Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods: For nothing now can ever come to any good. XXXIV August 1968 The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach, The Ogre cannot master Speech: About a subjugated plain, Among its desperate and slain, The Ogre stalks with hands on hips, While drivel gushes from his lips. Epitaph on a Tyrant Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

49. Glbtq >> Literature >> Auden, W. H. One of the most accomplished poets of the twentieth century, W. H. Auden found that his gayness led him to new insights into the universal impulse to love and enlarged his http://www.glbtq.com/literature/auden_wh.html

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50. LRB · Frank Kermode · Maximum Assistance From Good Cooking, Good Clothes, Good Auden s Lectures on Shakespeare (ed. Arthur Kirsch), reviewed for the London Review of Books by Frank Kermode. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n04/kerm01_.html

skip navigation London Review of Books home page from the latest issue site map ... Frank Kermode , who died on 17 August at the age of 90, was the author of many books, including Romantic Image The Sense of an Ending (1967) and Shakespeare’s Language (2000). He was the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London and the King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University. He inspired the founding of the London Review in 1979, and wrote more than 200 pieces for the paper. MORE BY THIS CONTRIBUTOR First Pitch Marianne Moore Our Muddy Vesture Pacino’s Merchant of Venice The Savage Life The Adventures of William Empson Writing about Shakespeare Has his say No Tricks Raymond Carver Eliot and the Shudder The Shudder Nothing for Ever and Ever Housman’s Pleasures RELATED ARTICLES 7 February 2008 Frank Kermode Auden’s Prose 4 June 1987 Seamus Heaney Sounding Auden 19 November 1981 Barbara Everett Auden Askew 7 October 1993 David Bromwich Slow Deconstruction 16 March 1989 Frank Kermode Paul de Man’s Abyss 6 March 1980 Graham Hough Eliot’s End 20 December 1979 Roger Poole F.R. Leavis, Politics and Religion

51. Auden, W.H. Like Selected Poems, by Auden, Collected Poems, by Auden, Poets of the English Language, by Auden, Volume 4 Romantic Poets, Blake to Poe, Sonnets, by Shakespeare, Staying http://www.bookbyte.com/1/3/auden-w-h

52. W.H. Auden - Anhalten Alle Uhren / -- - LESELUST-Rezension Rezension des zweisprachigen Gedichtbands von Daniela Ecker in der Leselust. http://www.die-leselust.de/buch/auden_wh_uhren.htm

W.H. Auden - Anhalten alle Uhren Originaltitel: Lyrik. Pendo 2002 151 Seiten, ISBN: 3858424269 So wie mir ging es wohl nach dem Film "Vier Hochzeiten und ein Todesfall / Four Weddings and a Funeral" noch vielen anderen Kinobesuchern: Was war das f�r ein unglaublich trauriges Gedicht, das da auf der Beerdigung vorgetragen wurde? "Stop all the clocks / Anhalten alle Uhren" hei�t es - und ist von W.H. Auden, dessen Lyrik seither wieder st�rker beachtet wird. Daher habe ich mich sehr gefreut, als vom Pendo-Verlag nun eine zweisprachige Ausgabe ausgew�hlter Gedichte aufgelegt wurde. Mein erster Blick galt haupts�chlich den Liebesgedichten, die mich in ihrer Melancholie auch nach wie vor am meisten ansprechen. Aber da die Anordnung der Gedichte nicht thematisch, sondern weitgehend chronologisch erfolgt ist, kann man gar nicht umhin, auch die anderen Gedichte zu lesen - zum Gl�ck. Egal, ob es sich um Naturbetrachtungen, Abschied von Politikern oder Stellungnahme zur Weltpolitik handelt; seine Verse bewegen etwas in mir, er schafft es, das ich mich von einer Stimmung einfangen lasse, die oft weniger durch den Sinn der Worte als durch Klang und Rhythmus bewirkt wird. Zwar haben die �bersetzer, unter ihnen Ernst Jandl, wirklich gro�artige Arbeit geleistet, diese Verse ins Deutsche zu �bertragen; dennoch, diese Ausgabe bietet die Gelegenheit, sich �ber den Inhalt auf Deutsch - und �ber den Rest im Original zu erfreuen.

53. W. H. Auden Definition Of W. H. Auden In The Free Online Encyclopedia. Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh Auden) ( `dən), 1907–73, AngloAmerican poet, b. York, England, educated at Oxford. A versatile, vigorous, and technically skilled poet, Auden http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/W. H. Auden

54. AUDENS Provides technical design and analysis support in the area of satellite telecommunications systems, space segment and ground segment. http://www.audens.com/

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56. The Caliban Beneath The Skin: Abstract Drama In Auden's Favorite Poem | Style | Article on Auden s poetic style and themes, with a focus on The Sea and the Mirror. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2342/is_1_33/ai_58055907/

BNET Log In Join Search All of BNET Publications Library Home Commentary Leadership Life at Work ... Newspaper Collection @import "http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/Ads/common/css/siteSkin/bnet_mantleSkin.css"; document.cookie='MAD_FIRSTPAGE=1;path=/;domain=findarticles.com'; Arts Publications The Caliban Beneath the Skin: Abstract Drama in Auden's Favorite Poem Style Spring, 1999 by Jo-Anne Cappeluti Next Too many ideas in their heads! To them I'm an idea, you're an idea, everything's an idea. That's why we're here. Funny thing, Ticker, that we should both be in the same play. They can't do without us. W. H. Auden, The Dog Beneath the Skin, or Where is Francis? [. . .] for, in default of the all-wise, all-explaining master you would speak to, who else at least can, who else indeed must respond to your bewildered cry, but its very echo, the begged question you would speak to him about. W. H. Auden, "Caliban to the Audience" Is there [. . .] any figure traditionally associated with the stage who could be made to stand for this imaginative faculty? Yes, there is: the actor. Keats' famous description of the poet applies even more accurately to the actor: 'As to the poetic character itself, it is not itself; it has no self - it is everything and nothing.' Edward Mendelson concludes the preface to W. H. Auden's Selected Poems (1979) by calling The Sea and The Mirror Auden's masterpiece and the "Caliban to the Audience" section within it as the piece that Auden "preferred to all his others": "It had been the most recalcitrant in conception - he was stalled six months before he could work out its form - and the most pleasurable in the writing; and it confronted most directly and comprehensively the limits and powers of his art, and its temptations and possibilities" (xx). A question arises: what form could possibly challenge Auden, let alone challenge him for six months? Auden was such a master of form, not only of forms such as sonnets and sestinas but of forms such as Englyns and Drott-Kvaetts, that Mendelson's label of Auden as the "most technically skilled" poet of the twentieth century seems an understatement (Early Auden xiii).(1)

57. *Auden, W.H. « United Architects – Essays home table of content united architects – essays table of content all sites ►→Also see ►→ W. H. Auden (19071973) – Wystan Hugh Auden http://danassays.wordpress.com/encyclopedia-of-the-essay/auden-w-h/

@import url( http://s1.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/rubric/style.css?m=1274400606g ); *Auden, W.H. W.H.Auden home table of content united architects – essays table of content all sites ►→Also see: ►→ W. H. Auden (1907-1973) – Wystan Hugh Auden Auden, W.H. British/American, 1907–1973 W.H.Auden produced an astonishing range of prose works, and his particular and quirky intelligence painted new and challenging portraits of such “major” artists as Shakespeare and Goethe as well as “minor” writers such as Walter de la Mare and G.K.Chesterton. The distinctions between essay and review, criticism and history, philosophy and anthropology, melt in Auden’s prose, leaving the reader bewildered by a series of erudite, yet sometimes seriously questionable arguments. The two collections The Dyer’s Hand (1962) and Forewords and Afterwords (1973) contain selections of his later essays, while Edward Mendelson’s The English Auden (1977) provides a useful cross-section of the vibrant pre-1940 pieces. In “Psychology and Art To-Day” (1935) Auden suggested that “To a situation of danger and difficulty there are five solutions.” It was after rejecting the “solutions” of the idiot, the schizophrenic, the criminal, and the invalid that he accepted the positive and healing fifth solution shared by the scientist and the artist: “To understand the mechanism of the trap.” Much of the syncretism and eclecticism that underlie the easy transitions in his prose between various political and religious issues, as well as between disciplines, resulted from his search for synoptic understanding “as the hawk sees it, or the helmeted airman.”

58. Redeeming The Rake By David Schiff Discussion of Stravinsky s Opera, The Rake s Progress , for which Auden wrote the libretto. http://www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97nov/rake.htm

Return to the Table of Contents. N O V E M B E R 1 9 9 7 Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress is purposely hard to love which is why it so amply rewards those who stay for the glorious third act by David Schiff I GOR Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress is one of a handful of operas that I can sing beginning to end from memory not that anyone would want to hear me do it. It has held a special place in my affections ever since high school, when I came upon the one recording that existed at the time, with the composer conducting. I didn't actually see the opera until my senior year in college but that was not my fault. The opera world has never shared my love for The Rake. Until a new production opens this season, it will not have been performed by the Metropolitan Opera Company since its inaugural performances, in 1953. Discuss this article in the forum of My assessment of this work will probably strike most opera fans as perverse. It reflects the fact that I came to know operas from listening to records and studying scores rather than from seeing them in the theater. My opera experience produced its own form of snobbery. From my earliest exposure to the genre I was drawn to Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande

59. Auden, W. H.: The Oxford Companion To Shakespeare Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh Auden) (1907–73), English poet and critic. Auden's attention to Shakespeare is continuous. He lectured on Shakespeare in New York in 1946 and in http://www.enotes.com/ocs-encyclopedia/auden-w-h

60. W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (The Lied And Art Song Texts Page: Texts And Translati Texts of poems that have been set to music by Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten and others, including Lullaby , Nocturne and Elegy for JFK . http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/a/auden/

The Lied, Art Song, and Choral Texts Page Contents Home Introduction What's new FAQ and Links ... Sign Guestbook Utilities Search entire website Search by: Surname First Line Title Year ... Random Text Indexes by Composer by Poet by First Line by Title by Language Credits Created and maintained by Emily Ezust Translators and other volunteers Contact Information Partial Bibliography Emily's Homepage Emily's Amazon.ca wishlist If you find the information here useful, please help support this project! Author: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973) Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive] Another Time Delos For the Time Being Homage to Clip ... Two songs Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive] [x] indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database Note: titles are in bold and first lines are in italics A curse Dark was that day when Diesel ) - R. Escher A drink man, quick! (from Delos Songs from Mutter Courage [x] F. Routh: Song of the soldier before the inn A song for St. Cecilia's Day In a garden shady, this holy lady ) - R. Warren

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