W. H. Auden

Oct 6, 2024 | buttondown.com | Anne Sexton |Conrad Aiken |W. H. Auden |William Wordsworth

October 6, 2024 Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I write about what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid subscribers. BECOME A PAID SUBSCRIBERQuite early in my life, at seventeen, I set myself the task of memorizing one hundred poems. I was in the first graduating class of a small, weird school, where they allowed us to do “senior projects.” That was mine.

Feb 21, 2024 | theatlantic.com | W. H. Auden

For much of his career, the poet W. H. Auden was known for writing fiercely political work. He critiqued capitalism, warned of fascism, and documented hunger, protest, war. He was deeply influenced by Marxism. And he was hugely successful. Yet in truth, he wasn’t always as certain as he appeared. “Auden was never comfortable in his role as poetic prophet to the British Left,” his biographer Edward Mendelson wrote.

Feb 21, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | W. H. Auden

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equally affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day.

Dec 31, 2023 | plough.com | W. H. Auden

Read Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree,Putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes—Some have got broken—and carrying them up to the attic. The holly and the mistletoe must be taken down and burnt,And the children got ready for school.

Oct 10, 2023 | dialnet.unirioja.es | W. H. Auden

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