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INTIMATE JOURNALS OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (128 pp.)-Translafed by Christopher Isherwood, introduction by W.H. Auden-Marcel Rodd...
...fine introduction W. H. Auden says, "The last few pages in My Heart Laid Bare, which follow this entry, are some of the most terrifying and pathetic passages in literature. They present a man fighting against time to eradicate a life time's habits of thought and feeling, and set himself in order and acquire a history. . . . To the eye of nature, he was too late. As he spoke, the bird stooped and struck. But, to the eye of the spirit, we are entitled to believe he was in time - for, though the spirit needs time, an instant...
...yesterday's reading, Spender first spoke briefly on the factors influencing his generation. He said that the chief stimuli on such poets as Auden, McNeice, and himself were the economic depression and the challenge of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land...
Included among these will be professors from five American universities, poet W. H. Auden, English novelist Ralph Bates, and two presentations of music from the Cervantine period. Harvard representatives on the slate will be Amade Alonso, professor of Romance Languages, and Jean, Joseph Sexnec. Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages...
Twelve lectures, including one by British poet W. H. Auden, will form the backbone of the anniversary celebration...