Auden is right that loving the process matters is paramount. From Wordnik.com. [2007 May 14 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
Cleopatra's abandonment of Antony during Actium is a good crux of this relationship, in Auden's view. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
Recalling Auden's lines on Yeats, we may say that mad Israel hurt him into politics. From Wordnik.com. [The Chicago Blog] Reference
There is a fi ne example in Auden’s ‘In Time of War’, written after his journey to China in 1938. From Wordnik.com. [In the Picture: Orwell, India and the BBC] Reference
Upward also makes an appearance as a character in Auden’s charade, Paid on Both Sides, published in T.S. Eliot’s Criterion in 1930. From Wordnik.com. [The Captive Mind] Reference
Nowadays, you'd never see a poet such as Auden on a chatshow. From Wordnik.com. [Poets on television] Reference
Best of all, bracingly ruthless portraits of old friends such as Auden, Spender and E M. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
WH Auden declares in his poem Musée des Beaux Arts that. From Wordnik.com. [Pisanello at the British Museum: a gory delight] Reference
I liked a poem by Auden in high school because it was funny. From Wordnik.com. [A Life In Books: Dana Gioia] Reference
The poet W H Auden abandoned Christianity quite early in his life. From Wordnik.com. [Archbishop's Holy Week Lecture: Faith & History] Reference
I started to do a little research and found that Auden was not alone. From Wordnik.com. [Where Do You Get Poetic Inspiration?] Reference
But seriously, what sane person could choose between Donne and Auden?. From Wordnik.com. [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference
What do you mean by quoting Auden saying poetry makes nothing happen?. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare - The Today Programme] Reference
Bishop could be as colloquial as W.C. Williams and as witty as Auden. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Reticence] Reference
Auden was politically active and wrote some beautiful political poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Jennifer Nix: Resurrecting Literature: Sustenance for the Progressive Soul] Reference
Eliot had not been a bad omen, because Auden had followed on his heels. From Wordnik.com. [Final Resting Place of The Pen] Reference
W H Auden, "Sonnets from China" (XVII). From Wordnik.com. [Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke] Reference
Auden somewhere makes the distinction between being boring and being a bore. From Wordnik.com. [LRB Hits the Big 3-0: James Wolcott] Reference
Auden: "I'm going to the john — has anyone seen my Scientific American?". From Wordnik.com. [Where Do You Get Poetic Inspiration?] Reference
Auden, W.H. (AWD-n) A British-born twentieth-century American writer and critic. From Wordnik.com. [Auden, W. H] Reference
She's trilingual and well read — her 2007 album reprises poems by Auden and Yeats. From Wordnik.com. [Ecopolitics: Why Japan Risks Its Place In the World to Hunt Whales] Reference
But unlike Auden, love for us must last forever as death is not the end, the beginning. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2001] Reference
I thought of T.S. Eliot's response when Auden asked him why he played patience so much. From Wordnik.com. [Terra Incognita]
Auden saying "poetry makes nothing happen", and you tried to explain what you mean by that. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare - The Today Programme] Reference
Through his poems of the 1930s, one hears again and again the voices of Yeats and of Auden. From Wordnik.com. [Three British Poets] Reference
The BBC allows you to hear Auden read this poem at a 1965 festival; his father was a physicist. From Wordnik.com. [After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics] Reference
Fascism exploits that fact, as regretted in the Auden sonnet which provides the poem's epigraph. From Wordnik.com. [Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke] Reference
H Auden, have stirred such enthusiasm among undergraduates that they threaten to outgrow the room. From Wordnik.com. [Annual report on historical collections University of Virginia Library] Reference
It is, Auden would have said, just what it is, and must be judged for what it is and nothing else. From Wordnik.com. [A Sermon for Shakespeare Sunday] Reference
Auden was her poet, and she knew all too well, that, lovely woman or not, she would stoop to folly. From Wordnik.com. [Final Resting Place of The Pen] Reference
Auden writes of the genre of poets as comprising those 'who die so young, or live for years alone.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Death of Pushkin] Reference
Auden, one of the great poets of the twentieth century, replied that he didn't read literary magazines. From Wordnik.com. [Where Do You Get Poetic Inspiration?] Reference
A line from Auden came back to her, something about the raw places where executives would never tamper. From Wordnik.com. [In a Strange City]
"It is time for the destruction of error," said Auden, and the instinct of the demolitionist is strong in Angle of Yaw. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry: What Does It Accomplish?] Reference
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