Word: auden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Written in right verse by two of England's most outstanding poets, W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, the play was selected by the unanimous vote of the Club members, and faculty advisers were enthusiastic over the choice. Playwright Auden is known in this country for his "Dance of Death" which had a successful run in New York last year...
...Auden's new poems are dedicated to his wife, Erika Mann, the daughter of Thomas Mann, and the dedicatory lines set the tone...
...other words, Mr. Auden's verse is becoming more intense by concentration upon political symbolism, but its intensity does not penetrate the consciousness of the mass of readers because his syntax is still involved, his imagery still "metaphysical" in the XVIIth century sense. Nevertheless, there is vast improvement in communication over previous volumes. One can understand these poems. The poetry of Auden is no longer the Chinese puzzle it was when it first began and when an aristocratic damsel in his "literary senate" gave her applause in those incomparable words, too funny to be other than apocryphal: "I feel...
...barriers between the reader and Mr. Auden are being diminished. Such a passage as the following from the Prologue is simple when contrasted with the Orators...
Verse ON THIS ISLAND-W. H. Auden-Random House ($1.50). Latest collection (31 poems) of England's most-touted younger poet. Lay readers may note echoes of A. E. Housman, Robert Burns, Laura Riding...