A Selection of British Poetry: Auden
Many Auden poems, including "Canzone", "As We Like It", "The Labyrinth" and selections from "Songs and Musical Pieces" |
As I Walked Out One Evening
Text at the University of Calgary. |
Bumbleshoot: W.H. Auden
Twenty-eight poems by Auden. Includes many short poems. |
Demon or Gift: from Later Auden
This, the first chapter from Edward Mendelson's book "Later Auden," analyses the poem "In Memory of W.B. Yeats." |
Edward Lear
Auden's sonnet on this Victorian writer, at the Edward Lear Home Page. |
Frank Kermode on Auden's Shakespeare
Auden's Lectures on Shakespeare (ed. Arthur Kirsch), reviewed for the London Review of Books by Frank Kermode. |
Funeral Blues
Text, discussion of the correct title, and scans of the original published version of this Auden poem. |
Horae Canonicae
Text of Auden's sequence of religious poems. |
Law Like Love
Text of this Auden poem. First line: "Law, say the gardeners, is the sun". |
Lullaby
Text of Auden's poem. First lines: "Lay your sleeping head, my love/Human on my faithless arm." |
Musée des Beaux Arts
Analysis of poem. First line: "About suffering they were never wrong." Includes Breughel's painting "The Fall of Icarus", which the poem refers to. |
Narrator
The last speaking part of Auden's Christmas oratorio "For the Time Being." |
Night Mail
Text of this song, written for the documentary movie "The Night Mail", on the British postal system. |
Readings: Two Songs for Hedli Anderson
Text of two Auden poems, "Funeral Blues" and "Johnny". |
Redeeming the Rake by David Schiff
Discussion of Stravinsky's Opera, "The Rake's Progress", for which Auden wrote the libretto. |
Salon.com Audio: W. H. Auden
Recordings of Auden reading two poems, "Under Which Lyre" and "Law Like Love". Available in mp3 and RealMedia formats. |
Song Texts
Texts of poems that have been set to music by Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten and others, including "Lullaby", "Nocturne" and "Elegy for JFK". |
The Dyer's Hand
A review of Auden's collection of essays, by the poet John Berryman. |
The Secret Agent
A famous if obscure early Auden poem. |
The Shield of Achilles
Text of this frequently anthologized poem. |
The Virtual Streetband
Words from W.H. Auden put to music with animations. |
The Watershed
One of Auden's earliest poems. |
There Will be no Peace
Text of this Auden poem at Jagiellonian University,Kraków, Poland. |
Under Which Lyre
Text of this poem, subtitled "A Reactionary Tract for the Times". |
W.H. Auden at the University of Dundee
Text of "In Praise of Limestone" and three short poems. |
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