The Orators was Auden’s second book, published in 1932 when he was still only starting out in his career as a poet. It occupies 93 pages in Faber’s 2015 edition, and readily justifies its standing as a separate volume. However, it is excluded from the Collected Poems not because of its length, but...
The fourth, and final, Dover poetry anthology I am reviewing. As with the others, it is an easily portable, inexpensive book. Includes work by 58 poets. Ten were born before 1600, another six in the 17th century, twelve in the 18th century, and two in the 20th century. So 28 were born in the 19th c...
Note to the Expanded EditionIntroduction--Who stands, the crux left of the watershed--From the very first coming down--Control of the passes was, he saw, the key--Taller to-day, we remember similar evenings--Watch any day his nonchalant pauses, see--Will you turn a deaf ear--Sir, no man's enemy, for...
but what does it mean to finish reading poem compilation? i'm not really finish reading it, just returning it. I'm glad I tried reading Auden, I have his more complete collection on the way.
This is something really new for me. I only began reading literature again, after a multi-decades long hiatus, 2 yrs ago. Poetry in particular has always been inaccessible to me – I mean, I read a lot of Greek and Latin poetry, of course – but somehow that’s different – but I’ve *never* been able to...
I just saw this wonderful verse quoted in Lars Saabye Christensen's Beatles:Døyr fe; døyr frendar; døyr sjølv det same. Eg veit eitt som aldri døyr, dom um daudan kvar.After a little searching, here's an English translation, though I'm not sure it's Auden's:Cattle die, and kinsmen die, And so one di...
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I bought this book just for the inscription:For Heather...Because poetry can heal the soul.With love,Jason(Dec. 2001)I've spent many an hour wondering about Jason and Heather, whether poetry did in fact heal her soul, and why a gift given with love ended up on the discount clearance rack at Hastings...
Yezierska was one of the first wave of immigrant Jewish writers from the early part of the twentieth century. This is a "memoir" of her time in Hollywood as a screenwriter after her first book got optioned for movie (this was before talkies), with later sections detailing her post-Hollywood slump a...
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