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Connolly operated on a single ground rule, "the pursuit of quality." He pursued and printed such first-rate writers as T. S. Eliot, Andre Gide, Arthur Koestler, Evelyn Waugh and W. H. Auden. Even in wartime, Connolly kept Horizon's standards up and its voice down, made the magazine a kind of semiprecious touchstone of the arts. Earnest literati in England and the U.S. used it to deck their coffee tables and to restock their mental shelves. In The Golden Horizon, Connolly picks a scant 600 pages to represent the original 10,000. The result suggests that Horizon often...
...view of the world pegged on the comic misadventures of "a dime called Dinah and a nickel called Nick and a brown baby sister called Penny for short," who "lived in a Piggy Bank up on a mantlepiece." British Poet MacNeice, a junior member of the Auden-Isherwood-Spender literary axis of the '30s, pitches his pennies in and out of trouble with enough sly surprises to clinch his first bid for fame with the lollipop...
Wystan Hugh Auden will present a reading of his own poetry with commentary today at 4 p.m. in the New Lecture Hall. The reading, open to the public, is under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund...
Some of the most famous works of W. H. Auden include "Musee dee Beaux Arts," "A Time of War," "September 1, 1939," and "In Memory of W. B. Yesfa...
...Anxiety, by W. H. Auden...