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NONES (81 pp.)-W.H. Auden-Random House...
Wystan Hugh Auden is a monstrous clever fellow. As an undergraduate at Oxford (1925-28) he was the most precocious of a literary set that included such precocities as Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood, Cecil Day Lewis. These lads were esthetes-with-a-difference: instead of snubbing the grown-up world, they lit into it with sardonic and superior howls. At least one of them (Spender) went all the way to Communism before he got his second wind. Auden went even further...
...nice about you is that you're so naive, Stephen ... I feel you're like me. We aren't clever, we aren't brilliant, we're just ourselves, and we know we're just little undergraduates." Another Oxford friend, Poet W. H. Auden, took a rather more hopeful view. "You are so infinitely capable of being humiliated," he told Spender. "Art is born of humiliation...
...along with Stephen Spender and W. H. Auden, he adopted a militant left-wing position, wrote lines like...
Bernstein: Symphony No. 2 (Lukas Foss, pianist; the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Leonard Bernstein conducting; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Composer Bernstein took his inspiration for this work from Poet W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety; he seems to have taken his musical inspiration from Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, et al. Performance and recording: good...