How To Use Auden In A Sentence
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He wrote in a highly individual, sometimes obscure, way that was in sharp contrast to the compressed intellectual style of T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and other contemporary poets.
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Gin he had hauden till 's fiddle, he wad hae been playin 'her the nicht, in place o' 's airm lyin 'at 's side like a lang lingel (ligneul -- shoemaker's thread).'
Robert Falconer
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The paper will also attend to some critical implications of the meter's movement, and will end by pointing to successors of Auden - poets like John Hollander and Marilyn Hacker - who followed his example and took up the alcaic meter in their own verses.
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These are the lost poems of the lost modernist, David Jones, a man whose allusive obscurity won him fans like Eliot and Auden but robbed him of his place in college curricula.
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The interlocking ways in which a vast country shaped an individual poet, even as he shaped its contentious, loosely confederated poets, is the subject of Aidan Wasley's "The Age of Auden.
Keeper of the Affirming Flame
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The ‘hot rampageous horses of my will’ clearly alludes to Socrates' palinode in The Phaedrus, but Auden, in contrast to Socrates, speaks of at least two unruly horses.
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In A Certain World Auden quotes Nietzsche's description of Dante ‘or the hyena poetizing among the tombs’; the quotation comes from Gotzen-Dammerung, reprinted in Samtliche Werke 6: 111.
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He is at his splenetic best when rubbishing Auden's poetry, a subject he joyously returns to again and again.
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Auden, who cannot have read many advice columns, was publicly known as a communicant of the Episcopal Church, a return in his celebrated genius to the church of his English boyhood.
Funny as a Crutch
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W. H. Auden said that the purpose of art is to make self-deception more difficult: "by telling the truth, to disenchant and disintoxicate.
Bright Lights After Dark
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In Eric Ambler's prewar thrillers, the interest (in Auden's words) is ‘the ethical and eristic conflict between good and evil, between Us and Them.’
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Though he is predominantly a satirist, the main stylistic influence on his work is W. H. Auden.
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In London yesterday, where crowds fumbling with mobile phones tried to find unimpeded ways across the city, there was much evidence of the truth of Auden's insight.
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Auden, in his librettos for Britten, Stravinsky, and Henze, established himself as an important writer in the form.
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Whether quoting Auden or some other poet, Mr. Wasley makes a habit of seeking to clarify the already clear; he paraphrases the pellucid.
Keeper of the Affirming Flame
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I was therefore already familiar with the categorical imperative, not least in Auden's rather fine clerihew:
Free Software and the Categorical Imperative
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This, however, may have been the result of performing in a play where teenagers can intelligently and unselfconsciously discuss Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, W. H. Auden, and Stevie Smith.
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The poet W. H. Auden derided “Lip-smacking Imps of mawk and hooey,” and the feminist author Germaine Greer in her 1970 Female Eunuch rescued equestrian interests of women from psychological leers with “The horse between a girl’s legs is supposed to be a gigantic penis.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Auden seems to have impressed his teachers and schoolmates by his wide knowledge and self-assurance.
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I realised I had missed seeing this incredible event by a matter of seconds - like the lumpish ploughman who fails to witness the fall of Icarus in Auden's Musee des Beaux Arts.
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Did Auden ever look back on his adulatory poem about Sigmund Freud, whom he makes out to be a secular saint of science, with similar embarrassment, once it began to seem that Freud's ideas may have hurt more people than they helped?
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Elizabethans, and Milton to Auden and Dylan Thomas, an elaborate tradition discernible in lavish metaphor and luxurious sound and rhythm, the second a domestic ageless tradition, an elementary language where, like a new Adam, the poet gives things their names, perceiving how the speech sounds take shape - as in a passage in the autobiographical Another Life: I watched the vowels curl from the tongue of the carpenter's plane,/resinous, fragrant ...
Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 - Presentation Speech
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None with Arden for a first name, though, and nothing close---no Alden, no Alton, no Auden.
HOPE TO DIE
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According to Haudenosaunee the indigenous name for the six nations that make up what Europeans call the Iroquois League tradition, the alliance was founded centuries before Europeans arrived.
1491: excerpts part 3
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For instance, the Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle omega counterfeit is notorious for its complexness; and has duped many coin collecting experts.
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W. H. Auden said:"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures. So that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf, demand atonement or grant forgiveness.
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As Auden wrote in "Musee des Beaux Arts": "everything turns away/Quite leisurely from the disaster.
Archive 2005-07-01
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He is at his splenetic best when rubbishing Auden's poetry, a subject he joyously returns to again and again.
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As what W. H. Auden called the ‘dishonest decade’ grew grimmer, the New Yorker's editorial policy shifted from insouciance to concern.
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Auden later became a friend and mentor.
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In his previous lodgings, Auden had kept scrupulously to his schedule of writing sessions interrupted only by meals and a tea-time snifter, then bed at 10 pm.
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It is only, of course, a piece of doggerel compared with the Auden poem but it does underline what poetry can do.
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Auden could never have been described as house-proud, but when he arrived on October 1, even he was dismayed to find rooms filled with plaster dust, and dirty dishes piled in the bathtub.
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In media India transitur per multas insulas vsque ad mare Oceanum, in insulam Ormuz, vbi Mercatores Venetiæ sæpè tendunt, sed viri, qui assueti non sunt tantum sustinere calorem, ne exeant perpendicula de corporibus propè ad genua, ibi se contra hoc debitè inuoluunt, et ligant, nec audent ibi transire nauibus ferrum continentibus, ne teneantur de rupibus adamantum.
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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After all, routine itself is a way of kind of keeping certain things at bay, it's a refuge from nameless fears, and interestingly, Auden understood that well and saw it in September 1939.
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Cleopatra's abandonment of Antony during Actium is a good crux of this relationship, in Auden's view.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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Sitting one day in their three-bedroom semi in Audenshaw, Andy and Anna looked out to see two teenagers climbing up a drainpipe of the Junction pub opposite.
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WH Auden made the strongest case against literature in his elegy for WB Yeats: ‘Now Ireland has her weather and her madness still / For poetry makes nothing happen’.
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No publisher ever felt it necessary to stick dashing images of Auden on his books.
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None with Arden for a first name, though, and nothing close---no Alden, no Alton, no Auden.
HOPE TO DIE
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In Biegert's view, "the Great Law of Haudenosaunee", also known as the Iroquois, "can help us from our predicament".
Conchita Sarnoff: The Nuclear Free Future Award
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“Your winged and pennated child arrived yesterday by the grace of God and his vicar the Secretary of State,” he wrote Saint-Gaudens.
The Five of Hearts
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Even in the poems written in the last, ailing years of his life, you sense a schoolboy's impish hunger for plunder: Auden was forever on the lookout for another unviolated orchard from which he could pilfer a couple of apples, a glowing orange.
Keeper of the Affirming Flame
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Through 21st century technology and the vision of Director Ed Moy, original Saint-Gaudens coin plasters were digitally mapped by the United States Mint.
Psychohistory
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This is one of three local Gamays, these being the prohibited Gamay Fréaux, a variety noted for having red flesh and juice rather than the usual clear juice, Gamay de Chaudenay and the aforementioned Gamay de Bouze.
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Nunc opus, Aonidum comites tripodumque ministri, diuersis certare modis: eat enthea uittis atque hederis redimita cohors, ut pollet ouanti quisque lyra. sed praecipui qui nobile gressu250 extremo fraudatis opus, date carmina festis digna toris. hunc ipse Coo plaudente Philetas
The Marriage of Stella and Violentilla
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A skeletal assistant runs a Gold Amex in the name of Marina Gaudenzi through the machine.
THE RHYTHM SECTION
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Auden spent much of the last years of his life in Oxford, and died suddenly in Vienna.
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Mr Audens brand of amoralism is only possible, if you are the kind of person who is always somewhere else when the trigger is pulled.
Inside the Whale
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Both the New Testament course and a 20th Century British poetry seminar, which I'm also auditing (and Auden-ing), have employed the same academic buzzword: "hermeneutical," which loosely defined means the interpretation of texts.
Walter Shapiro: Leaving Home Without It
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Following in Ange’s footsteps, I shall blog the best of the poetry criticism I heard there – beginning with a startling revelation about the real subject of Auden’s most famous love poem.
At last the secret is out : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Tippett chose W.H. Auden's autobiography ‘Far away and long ago’ as his prose setting, and he cast the work in the form of a Purcell cantata.
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Auden's elegy for Sigmund Freud follows the alcaic syllable-count (though not its rhythm).
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Devastated, Auden increased his intake of Benzedrine and Seconal to help him sleep.
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The resulting jostle of competing versions marks him more than any other poet, even Auden.
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Auden made verses
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The Periods variants of the 1907 Saint-Gaudens eagle hold an interesting place in American numismatics, as either patterns or regular issues.
Gold Hot in Heritage’s May 2008 Long Beach $26.5 Million Auction : Coin Collecting News
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After causing a disagreement between two suppliers, the third supplier smiled and said tertius gaudens.
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As time goes on, I get the sense that the move towards audence-friendliness is in large part due to increased modern opportunities to be played for a fool — with the number of scams, hoaxes, and misinformation we run into every day, people are less inclined to give the avant-garde a chance if there's any hint of a con about it.
Who walks in the classroom, cool and slow?
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Another of Brodsky's sources of inspiration is English poetry from the metaphysicist John Donne to W.H. Auden, he who wanted to be a lesser, atlantic Goethe.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 - Press Release
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Communi victu gaudent cum iumentis: Quod quid sit Munstero, ipse paul� superius haud obscur� docuit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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When he and Auden emigrated to America in 1939, the pederastic search resumed.
Christopher Isherwood remembered: 'Chris always loved young men, and I was certainly young'
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A friend who is a taxidermist has kept the fox in a freezer, but Jason, from Audenshaw, is unsure whether to have the animal stuffed.
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Auden was the next writer to sign on, bringing in his wake a galaxy of homeless talents.
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On the other, he has written a history of how aerial bombing -- that most brutal and inexact of modern sciences -- was interpreted by contemporary poets and writers, from W.H. Auden and T.S. Eliot to Virginia Woolf, who saw wide swaths of London "gashed" and "dismantled.
Review of "Bomber Country," by Daniel Swift
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The crow is piping hot, and seasoned with just a hint of schaudenfreud …
Think Progress » Flashback: Conservatives Guaranteed ‘ObamaCare Is Dead,’ ‘Pelosi Doesn’t Have The Votes’
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We know there's good work and bad work but who, among Auden lovers for example, would want to be without his often amazing juvenilia?
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Bacon is Shake-Speare
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He asked Auden to write ‘a very quiet little lyric’, which he set for baritone and three clarinets.
