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Auden described St. Mark's to a friend as a school that “ sets out to be a sort of American Eton ”; he was reportedly struck there by the “ dimness of the boys and the reverence of America for the average .” Eberhart briefly memorializes Auden's time at St. Mark's with his poem: “ To W. H. Auden on his Fiftieth Birthday ” in which he mentions the school in passing.
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From the 1930s, a revival of the form took place across the English-speaking world, led by poets such as W. H. Auden, and the 1950s were described as the " age of the sestina " by James E. B. Breslin.
Another lovely example concerns the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, thought until recently to be by Pieter Brueghel the Elder which is described in the poems " Musée des Beaux Arts " by WH Auden and William Carlos Williams's poem " Landscape with the Fall of Icarus ".
W. H. Auden described Ricks as ' exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding '.
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Britten completed the choral works Hymn to St. Cecilia ( his last large-scale collaboration with Auden ) and A Ceremony of Carols during the long sea voyage.
He was educated at St. George ’ s School in Harpenden, and at Wadham College, Oxford, where he associated with W. H. Auden and Cecil Day Lewis, and published in Oxford Poetry.
Bynner and Hunt had numerous parties at their house, hosting many notable writers, actors, and artists, which guests included Ansel Adams, Willa Cather, Igor Stravinsky, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Aldous Huxley, Clara Bow, Errol Flynn, Rita Hayworth, Christopher Isherwood, Carl Van Vechten, Martha Graham, Georgia O ' Keeffe and Thornton Wilder.
Auden and .
* Archifanfaro translated by W. H. Auden with an introduction by Michael Andre in Unmuzzled OX.
Other serious authors also produced clerihews, including W. H. Auden, and it remains a popular humorous form among other writers and the general public.
Their work involved poets such as W. H. Auden, composers such as Benjamin Britten, and writers such as J.
: — Epitaph for the Unknown Soldier, written by W. H. Auden
It was Grierson who coined the term " documentary " to describe a non-fiction film, and he produced the movement's most celebrated film of the 1930s, Night Mail ( 1936 ), written and directed by Basil Wright and Harry Watt, and incorporating the poem by W. H. Auden.
* 1907 – W. H. Auden, English poet ( d. 1973 )
At the funeral, Matthew recites the poem Funeral Blues (" Stop all the clocks ...") by W. H. Auden, commemorating his relationship with Gareth.
* A Great Auk appears as a prized possession of Baba the Turk in Igor Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress ( libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman ).
Auden, E. E.
Bertolt Brecht, W. H. Auden, André Breton, Louis Aragon and the philosophers Antonio Gramsci and Walter Benjamin are perhaps the most famous exemplars of this modernist form of Marxism.
Auden and friend
Auden, a friend of Dag's.
Raine has commented on his education: " At Barnard Castle I was taught by an absolutely remarkable English teacher, Arnold Snodgrass, a friend of W. H. Auden at Oxford later Robert Graves.
Together with his lifelong friend ( and sometime lover ) W. H. Auden, Kallman wrote the libretto for Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress ( 1951 ).
Merill believed that many historical poets of eras past, including W. H. Auden, speak through the Ouija board, as well as Merrill's old friend the filmmaker Maya Deren.
Kalam took the bereavement with courage and remembered these words written on the death of William Butler Yeats by his friend Auden, and his father:
He was born at Langley Marish and educated at Gresham's School, Holt, where he was a friend of W. H. Auden, leaving school at the age of sixteen in 1925.
Auden and school
At Deerfield, an all-boys school, Ashbery read such poets as W. H. Auden and Dylan Thomas, and began writing poetry.
* In his autobiography, Christopher Isherwood recalled that when he and W. H. Auden encountered Napoleon's tomb on a 1922 school trip to France, their first reaction was to quote The Outline's negative assessment of the French ruler.
An uncle of W. H. Auden ( named for the eponymous saint spelled Wystan by his father an alumnus of Repton school built on the remains of the Abbey ) wrote the entry for Wistanstow in Little Guide to Shropshire
Auden lived at the school in a cottage that he named " Lawrence Villa " ( one of his allusions to D. H. Lawrence ); during the summer term he took his bed out to the lawn ; thus the opening line of his poem " Out on the lawn I lie in bed ".
Benjamin Britten, Hedli Anderson and William Coldstream visited Auden at the school several times to work on Auden, Britten and Coldstream's collaboration for the G. P. O.
Parkman brought the noted poet Richard Eberhart to the school as an English teacher from 1933 – 1941, and W. H. Auden for a brief appointment in 1939.
Auden and “
* W. H. Auden ’ s “ Paid on Both Sides ”, at the Eye and Ear Theater, May 1983
Auden and out
* From Happy Knack: " Depending on how the next volume pans out, the complete Life is going to be at least treble and possibly quadruple the size of your average biography of Auden, Eliot or Pound, and might even outdo the Bible, which was of course written by divers hands, over a 1500-year period, and may have been assisted in its composition by the Spirit of God Him or Herself.
Auden and be
Auden, September 1, 1939: " Accurate scholarship can / Unearth the whole offense / From Luther until now / That has driven a culture mad, Find what occurred at Linz ...." To the end of his life, Hitler considered Linz to be his " home town ", and envisioned extensive architectural schemes for it, wanting it to become the main cultural centre of the Third Reich.
As a writer he was considered by T. S. Eliot to be of major importance, and his The Anathemata was considered by W. H. Auden to be the best long poem written in English in the 20th century.
After the publication in The Times of a letter of support for the exhibition, asking that something from the show be purchased for the national collection ( signed by, among others, Stephen Spender, W. H. Auden, Geoffrey Grigson, Rebecca West, Naomi Mitchison, Henry Moore and Eric Gill ) the Tate Gallery bought the painting, Red Scene.
Berlin in the 20s also proved to be a haven for English writers such as W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Christopher Isherwood, who wrote a series of ' Berlin novels ', inspiring the play I Am a Camera, which was later adapted into a musical, Cabaret, and an Academy Award winning film of the same name.
His work, influenced by W. H. Auden, is intensely original and many consider him to be, as Betjeman was, a man working outside of the dominant trends of the poetry of his day.
The criteria for inclusion in The New Poetry were firstly the poet had to be British ( which excluded Sylvia Plath from the first edition ) and had to have not made their reputation before 1950 ( this excluded the likes of W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice ) lastly the poets had to be ones that Alzarez liked.
Marked as it was by the influence of W. H. Auden and dealing with a primarily urban landscape and with questions of romantic love, Kinsella's early work marked him as distinct from the mainstream of Irish poetry in the 1950s and 1960s, which tended to be dominated by the example of Patrick Kavanagh.
In pursuit of a master's degree, Hayden studied under W. H. Auden, who directed Hayden's attention to issues of poetic form, technique, and artistic discipline, and influence may be seen in the " technical pith of Hayden's
The quotations on the stone are by E V Rieu (" He called a little child to him ..."), Richard Henry Stoddard ("... the spirit of a little child "), Bayard Taylor (" But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me ") and W. H. Auden (" We are linked as children in a circle dancing ").
Berlin in the 1920s also proved to be a haven for English writers such as W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Christopher Isherwood, who wrote a series of ' Berlin novels ', inspiring the play I Am a Camera, which was later adapted into a musical, Cabaret, and an Academy Award winning film of the same name.
The editors of The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry note that " the influence of Yeats, Auden, Hopkins, Crane, and Pound on him was strong, and Berryman's own voice — by turns nerve-racked and sportive — took some time to be heard.
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