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  2. Funeral Blues - Wikipedia

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    Funeral Blues", or "Stop all the clocks", is a poem by W. H. Auden which first appeared in the 1936 play The Ascent of F6. Auden substantially rewrote the poem several years later as a cabaret song for the singer Hedli Anderson. Both versions were set to music by the composer Benjamin Britten.

  3. W. H. Auden - Wikipedia

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    Wystan Hugh Auden (/ ˈ w ɪ s t ən ˈ h juː ˈ ɔː d ən /; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 [1]) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content.

  4. Category:Poetry by W. H. Auden - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Poetry by W. H. Auden" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. About the House;

  5. The Shield of Achilles - Wikipedia

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    The poem is the title work of The Shield of Achilles, a collection of poems in three parts, published in 1955, containing Auden's poems written from around 1951 through 1954. It begins with the sequence "Bucolics", then miscellaneous poems under the heading "In Sunshine and In Shade", then the sequence Horae Canonicae .

  6. Poems (Auden) - Wikipedia

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    In 1933, when Poems was reprinted, Auden replaced seven of the poems in the 1930 edition with poems that he had written during the year 1930, after completing the 1930 version of the book. Auden revised or dropped many of the poems in the 1933 edition for the collections and selections that he prepared in the 1940s and later.

  7. Thank You, Fog - Wikipedia

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    First US edition (publ. Random House) Thank You, Fog: Last Poems by W. H. Auden is a posthumous book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1974.. The book contains poems written mostly in 1972 and 1973; after Auden's death in September 1973 it was prepared for publication by his literary executor Edward Mendelson, who also included an "antimasque" titled "The Entertainment of the Senses ...

  8. The Orators - Wikipedia

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    The Orators: An English Study is a long poem in prose and verse written by W. H. Auden, first published in 1932. It is regarded as a major contribution to modernist poetry in English. The Orators is divided into three main sections, framed by " Prologue " and " Epilogue " (each a short poem ).

  9. Epistle to a Godson - Wikipedia

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    Epistle to a Godson and other poems is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1972. [1] [2] This book was the last book of poems that Auden completed in his lifetime; its successor, Thank You, Fog was left unfinished at his death. The poems included in the book were written mostly in 1968–1971.