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Documentary film looking at the poetry of W H Auden, revealing how it came not just from inspiration but from a rigorous scientific analysis of love itself. When he died in 1973, he left behind some of the greatest love poems of the 20th century. Most of his unpublished material was destroyed, apart from two short journals and a series of jottings, containing diagrams and notes about the nature of love.
Produced and Directed by Susanna White.
To commemorate the centenary of the birth of one of Britain's most influential and best-loved poets, this film combines dramatizations of telling events in the life of W.H. Auden with interviews from the TV and radio archives and extracts from Auden's poetry, notebooks, letters and journals.
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Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 - 29 September 1973), who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, born in England, later an American citizen, regarded by many critics as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. His work is noted for its stylistic and technical achievements, its engagement with moral and political issues, and its variety of tone, form and content. The central themes of his poetry are love, politics and citizenship, religion and morals, and the relationship between unique human beings and the anonymous, impersonal world of nature. (Wikipedia)
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Modern Poetry (ENGL 310) with Langdon Hammer
This lecture presents the early poetry of W.H. Auden. In "From the Very First Coming Down," Auden's relationship to the reader is considered, as well as the role of economy, truth, and morality in his poetics. The political Auden is examined in "Spain" and "September 1, 1939," along with his later practice of revising controversial poems. Finally, his interest in traditional forms, his vision of love, and his characteristic perspectivism, are explored in "This Lunar Beauty" and "As I Walked Out One Evening."
00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: Wystan Hugh Auden
04:57 - Chapter 2. The Early W. H. Auden
12:08 - Chapter 3. W. H. Auden Poem: "From the Very First Coming Down"
20:39 - Chapter 4. W. H. Auden Poem: "Spain"
24:09 - Chapter 5. W. H. Auden Poem: "September 1, 1939"
30:58 - Chapter 6. W. H. Auden Poems: "This Lunar Beauty" and "Lullaby"
36:31 - Chapter 7. W. H. Auden Poem: "As I Walked Out One Evening"
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://oyc.yale.edu
This course was recorded in Spring 2007.
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W.H. Auden reads his thought-provoking lyric 'As I Walked Out One Evening', written in 1937. I hope you enjoy the film, and please feel free to post a comment. I do not own any rights to the recording.
- published: 05 Dec 2009
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This is the recording of W.H Auden's wonderful poem Funeral Blues from the BBC program "The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words." It uses four well known actors and a gentle piano accompanient to make what is one of the best renditions of this poem available. I have mixed in what I feel are suitable photos and a back projection of an actual funeral. This poem was made hugely popular after appearing in Richard Curtis's award winning film " Four Wedding's and a Funeral".
- published: 07 Mar 2013
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On this day Hitler invaded Poland and WWII broke out. Thucydides was an honest historian, the originator of Political Realism which observes that the relationship between countries is based on strength and not which is in the right. His work is still studied in military academies.
- published: 29 Dec 2008
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This poem was published and probably written in 1940, when the future and the consequences of actions were most unpredictable.
The picture is of Auden with Christopher Isherwood at about the same time as he wrote this poem.
"Time Unveiling Truth" was painted by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in about 1745
- published: 01 Oct 2009
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Peter Szewczyk made this reading into a film - here it is on video http://vimeo.com/25287438
Auden wrote this poem in 1937, when he was 30.
"Lily White Boys" come form a song "Green Grow the Rushes, O" (not the one by Rabbie Burns). Ben Jonson makes reference to "roaring boys" and so does Tom O' Bedlam's song.
I couldn't find a picture of Bristol Street, Birmingham, but trams would have been running then. The photograph was taken by D J Norton in about 1950 of a street nearby.
- published: 30 Jan 2009
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Historian and author Simon Schama reads 'Lullaby' by W.H. Auden, and tells us why it always moves him to tears.
Find out more about Poems 'That Make Grown Men Cry': http://books.simonandschuster.co.uk/Poems-That-Make-Grown-Men-Cry/Anthony-Holden/9781471134890
- published: 08 Oct 2014
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Wystan Hugh Auden (
/ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən/; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973), who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, born in England, later an American citizen, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. His work is noted for its stylistic and technical achievements, its engagement with moral and political issues, and its variety of tone, form and content. The central themes of his poetry are love, politics and citizenship, religion and morals, and the relationship between unique human beings and the anonymous, impersonal world of nature.
Auden grew up around Birmingham in a professional middle class family and read English literature at Christ Church, Oxford. His early poems, written in the late 1920s and early 1930s, alternated between telegraphic modern styles and fluent traditional ones, were written in an intense and dramatic tone, and established his reputation as a left-wing political poet and prophet. He became uncomfortable in this role in the later 1930s, and abandoned it after he moved to the United States in 1939, where he became an American citizen in 1946. His poems in the 1940s explored religious and ethical themes in a less dramatic manner than his earlier works, but still combined traditional forms and styles with new forms devised by Auden himself. In the 1950s and 1960s many of his poems focused on the ways in which words revealed and concealed emotions, and he took a particular interest in writing opera librettos, a form ideally suited to direct expression of strong feelings.
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58:42W. H. Auden - Tell Me The Truth About Love (documentary)
W. H. Auden - Tell Me The Truth About Love (documentary)W. H. Auden - Tell Me The Truth About Love (documentary)
Documentary film looking at the poetry of W H Auden, revealing how it came not just from inspiration but from a rigorous scientific analysis of love itself. When he died in 1973, he left behind some of the greatest love poems of the 20th century. Most of his unpublished material was destroyed, apart from two short journals and a series of jottings, containing diagrams and notes about the nature of love. Produced and Directed by Susanna White. -
58:10The Addictions of Sin: W.H. Auden in His Own Words
The Addictions of Sin: W.H. Auden in His Own WordsThe Addictions of Sin: W.H. Auden in His Own Words
To commemorate the centenary of the birth of one of Britain's most influential and best-loved poets, this film combines dramatizations of telling events in the life of W.H. Auden with interviews from the TV and radio archives and extracts from Auden's poetry, notebooks, letters and journals. -
9:22The Addictions of Sin: W. H. Auden in His Own Words (6/6)
The Addictions of Sin: W. H. Auden in His Own Words (6/6)The Addictions of Sin: W. H. Auden in His Own Words (6/6)
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3:11WH Auden recites "Doggerel by a Senior Citizen" 1969
WH Auden recites "Doggerel by a Senior Citizen" 1969WH Auden recites "Doggerel by a Senior Citizen" 1969
Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 - 29 September 1973), who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, born in England, later an American citizen, regarded by many critics as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. His work is noted for its stylistic and technical achievements, its engagement with moral and political issues, and its variety of tone, form and content. The central themes of his poetry are love, politics and citizenship, religion and morals, and the relationship between unique human beings and the anonymous, impersonal world of nature. (Wikipedia) From Dutch Television: VPRO More on Literary Arts, check my playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdfetz8BhaRhbxZbq5a7l4H1yIOY0vFMK -
44:3922. W. H. Auden
22. W. H. Auden22. W. H. Auden
Modern Poetry (ENGL 310) with Langdon Hammer This lecture presents the early poetry of W.H. Auden. In "From the Very First Coming Down," Auden's relationship to the reader is considered, as well as the role of economy, truth, and morality in his poetics. The political Auden is examined in "Spain" and "September 1, 1939," along with his later practice of revising controversial poems. Finally, his interest in traditional forms, his vision of love, and his characteristic perspectivism, are explored in "This Lunar Beauty" and "As I Walked Out One Evening." 00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: Wystan Hugh Auden 04:57 - Chapter 2. The Early W. H. Auden 12:08 - Chapter 3. W. H. Auden Poem: "From the Very First Coming Down" 20:39 - Chapter 4. W. H. Auden Poem: "Spain" 24:09 - Chapter 5. W. H. Auden Poem: "September 1, 1939" 30:58 - Chapter 6. W. H. Auden Poems: "This Lunar Beauty" and "Lullaby" 36:31 - Chapter 7. W. H. Auden Poem: "As I Walked Out One Evening" Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://oyc.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2007. -
2:39Wystan Hugh Auden - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Wystan Hugh Auden - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)Wystan Hugh Auden - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
W.H. Auden reads his thought-provoking lyric 'As I Walked Out One Evening', written in 1937. I hope you enjoy the film, and please feel free to post a comment. I do not own any rights to the recording. -
1:34W.H. Auden Funeral Blues - BBC's Best Version on You Tube
W.H. Auden Funeral Blues - BBC's Best Version on You TubeW.H. Auden Funeral Blues - BBC's Best Version on You Tube
This is the recording of W.H Auden's wonderful poem Funeral Blues from the BBC program "The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words." It uses four well known actors and a gentle piano accompanient to make what is one of the best renditions of this poem available. I have mixed in what I feel are suitable photos and a back projection of an actual funeral. This poem was made hugely popular after appearing in Richard Curtis's award winning film " Four Wedding's and a Funeral". -
3:31"1st September 1939" by W.H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
"1st September 1939" by W.H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)"1st September 1939" by W.H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
On this day Hitler invaded Poland and WWII broke out. Thucydides was an honest historian, the originator of Political Realism which observes that the relationship between countries is based on strength and not which is in the right. His work is still studied in military academies. -
1:51W.H. Auden reads In Memory of W.B. Yeats (I)
W.H. Auden reads In Memory of W.B. Yeats (I) -
1:25"If I Could Tell You" by W.H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
"If I Could Tell You" by W.H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)"If I Could Tell You" by W.H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
This poem was published and probably written in 1940, when the future and the consequences of actions were most unpredictable. The picture is of Auden with Christopher Isherwood at about the same time as he wrote this poem. "Time Unveiling Truth" was painted by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in about 1745 -
2:22As I Walked Out one Evening by W. H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
As I Walked Out one Evening by W. H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)As I Walked Out one Evening by W. H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
Peter Szewczyk made this reading into a film - here it is on video http://vimeo.com/25287438 Auden wrote this poem in 1937, when he was 30. "Lily White Boys" come form a song "Green Grow the Rushes, O" (not the one by Rabbie Burns). Ben Jonson makes reference to "roaring boys" and so does Tom O' Bedlam's song. I couldn't find a picture of Bristol Street, Birmingham, but trams would have been running then. The photograph was taken by D J Norton in about 1950 of a street nearby. -
3:31PTMGMC: Simon Schama reads W.H. Auden
PTMGMC: Simon Schama reads W.H. AudenPTMGMC: Simon Schama reads W.H. Auden
Historian and author Simon Schama reads 'Lullaby' by W.H. Auden, and tells us why it always moves him to tears. Find out more about Poems 'That Make Grown Men Cry': http://books.simonandschuster.co.uk/Poems-That-Make-Grown-Men-Cry/Anthony-Holden/9781471134890 -
1:05Hitchens '07: Quotes W.H. Auden
Hitchens '07: Quotes W.H. AudenHitchens '07: Quotes W.H. Auden
PLEASE SUB TO THIS CHANNEL & ALSO HERE: https://www.youtube.com/user/NightjarFlying Mon., June 4th, 2007 7:00 PM. Los Angeles. Christopher Hitchens in conversation with Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times columnist, about "God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/12/In-Memoriam-Christopher-Hitchens-19492011 Vanity Fair In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949--2011, by Juli Weiner, Dec 15th 2011. Christopher Hitchens—the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant—died today at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in the spring of 2010, just after the publication of his memoir, Hitch-22, and began chemotherapy soon after. "My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends," he wrote in the June 2011 issue. He died in their presence, too, at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. May his 62 years of living, well, so livingly console the many of us who will miss him dearly Christopher Eric Hitchens (born 13 April 1949) is an Anglo-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became a media fellow at the Hoover Institution in September 2008. He is a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits and in 2005 was voted the world's fifth top public intellectual in a Prospect/Foreign Policy poll. Hitchens is known for his admiration of George Orwell, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson and for his excoriating critiques of, among others, Mother Teresa, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Henry Kissinger. His confrontational style of debate has made him both a lauded and controversial figure. As a political observer, polemicist and self-defined radical, he rose to prominence as a fixture of the left-wing publications in his native Britain and in the United States. His departure from the established political left began in 1989 after what he called the "tepid reaction" of the Western left following Ayatollah Khomeini's issue of a fatwa- calling for the murder of Salman Rushdie. The 11 September 2001 attacks strengthened his internationalist embrace of an interventionist foreign policy, and his vociferous criticism of what he called "fascism with an Islamic face." His numerous editorials in support of the Iraq War caused some to label him a neoconservative, although Hitchens insists he is not "a conservative of any kind." Identified as a champion of the "New Atheism" movement, Hitchens describes himself as an antitheist and a believer in the philosophical values of the Enlightenment. Hitchens says that a person "could be an atheist and wish that belief in god were correct," but that "an antitheist, a term I'm trying to get into circulation, is someone who is relieved that there's no evidence for such an assertion." He argues that the concept of god or a supreme being is a totalitarian belief that destroys individual freedom, and that free expression and scientific discovery should replace religion as a means of teaching ethics and defining human civilization. He wrote at length on atheism and the nature of religion in his 2007 book God Is Not Great. Though Hitchens retained his British citizenship, he became a United States citizen on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial on 13 April 2007, his 58th birthday. Asteroid 57901 is named after him. His memoir, Hitch-22, was published in June 2010. Touring for the book was cut short later the same month so that he could begin treatment for newly diagnosed oesophageal cancer. -
2:22O Tell Me the Truth About Love by W.H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
O Tell Me the Truth About Love by W.H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)O Tell Me the Truth About Love by W.H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
This is Auden being facetious about a serious subject.
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Born: 1907-02-21
Died: 1973-09-29
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W. H. Auden - Tell Me The Truth About Love (documentary)
Documentary film looking at the poetry of W H Auden, revealing how it came not just from inspiration but from a rigorous scientific analysis of love itself. When he died in 1973, he left behind some of the greatest love poems of the 20th century. Most of his unpublished material was destroyed, apart from two short journals and a series of jottings, containing diagrams and notes about the nature of love. Produced and Directed by Susanna White. -
The Addictions of Sin: W.H. Auden in His Own Words
To commemorate the centenary of the birth of one of Britain's most influential and best-loved poets, this film combines dramatizations of telling events in the life of W.H. Auden with interviews from the TV and radio archives and extracts from Auden's poetry, notebooks, letters and journals. -
The Addictions of Sin: W. H. Auden in His Own Words (6/6)
Part 6 -
WH Auden recites "Doggerel by a Senior Citizen" 1969
Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 - 29 September 1973), who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, born in England, later an American citizen, regarded by many critics as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. His work is noted for its stylistic and technical achievements, its engagement with moral and political issues, and its variety of tone, form and content. The central themes of his poetry are love, politics and citizenship, religion and morals, and the relationship between unique human beings and the anonymous, impersonal world of nature. (Wikipedia) From Dutch Television: VPRO More on Literary Arts, check my playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdfetz8BhaRhbxZbq5a7l4H1yIOY0vFMK -
22. W. H. Auden
Modern Poetry (ENGL 310) with Langdon Hammer This lecture presents the early poetry of W.H. Auden. In "From the Very First Coming Down," Auden's relationship to the reader is considered, as well as the role of economy, truth, and morality in his poetics. The political Auden is examined in "Spain" and "September 1, 1939," along with his later practice of revising controversial poems. Finally, his interest in traditional forms, his vision of love, and his characteristic perspectivism, are explored in "This Lunar Beauty" and "As I Walked Out One Evening." 00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: Wystan Hugh Auden 04:57 - Chapter 2. The Early W. H. Auden 12:08 - Chapter 3. W. H. Auden Poem: "From the Very First Coming Down" 20:39 - Chapter 4. W. H. Auden Poem: "Spain" 24:09 - Chapter 5. W. H. Auden ... -
Wystan Hugh Auden - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
W.H. Auden reads his thought-provoking lyric 'As I Walked Out One Evening', written in 1937. I hope you enjoy the film, and please feel free to post a comment. I do not own any rights to the recording. -
W.H. Auden Funeral Blues - BBC's Best Version on You Tube
This is the recording of W.H Auden's wonderful poem Funeral Blues from the BBC program "The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words." It uses four well known actors and a gentle piano accompanient to make what is one of the best renditions of this poem available. I have mixed in what I feel are suitable photos and a back projection of an actual funeral. This poem was made hugely popular after appearing in Richard Curtis's award winning film " Four Wedding's and a Funeral". -
"1st September 1939" by W.H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
On this day Hitler invaded Poland and WWII broke out. Thucydides was an honest historian, the originator of Political Realism which observes that the relationship between countries is based on strength and not which is in the right. His work is still studied in military academies. -
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"If I Could Tell You" by W.H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
This poem was published and probably written in 1940, when the future and the consequences of actions were most unpredictable. The picture is of Auden with Christopher Isherwood at about the same time as he wrote this poem. "Time Unveiling Truth" was painted by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in about 1745 -
As I Walked Out one Evening by W. H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
Peter Szewczyk made this reading into a film - here it is on video http://vimeo.com/25287438 Auden wrote this poem in 1937, when he was 30. "Lily White Boys" come form a song "Green Grow the Rushes, O" (not the one by Rabbie Burns). Ben Jonson makes reference to "roaring boys" and so does Tom O' Bedlam's song. I couldn't find a picture of Bristol Street, Birmingham, but trams would have been running then. The photograph was taken by D J Norton in about 1950 of a street nearby. -
PTMGMC: Simon Schama reads W.H. Auden
Historian and author Simon Schama reads 'Lullaby' by W.H. Auden, and tells us why it always moves him to tears. Find out more about Poems 'That Make Grown Men Cry': http://books.simonandschuster.co.uk/Poems-That-Make-Grown-Men-Cry/Anthony-Holden/9781471134890 -
Hitchens '07: Quotes W.H. Auden
PLEASE SUB TO THIS CHANNEL & ALSO HERE: https://www.youtube.com/user/NightjarFlying Mon., June 4th, 2007 7:00 PM. Los Angeles. Christopher Hitchens in conversation with Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times columnist, about "God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/12/In-Memoriam-Christopher-Hitchens-19492011 Vanity Fair In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949--2011, by Juli Weiner, Dec 15th 2011. Christopher Hitchens—the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant—died today at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in the spring of 2010, just after the publication of his memoir, Hitch-22, and began chemotherapy soon after. "My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been ... -
O Tell Me the Truth About Love by W.H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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WH Auden reads "The More Loving One"
http://blogaboutpoetry.wordpress.com A reading of "The More Loving One" by WH Auden. The poem in full: Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast.How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total darkness sublime, Though this might take me a little time. -
Funeral Blues - Four Weddings and a Funeral
Funeral Blues WH Auden Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead. Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong. The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods; For nothing now can ever come to any good. Read by Matthew, as played by John Hanna. I do n... -
W.H. Auden — September 1, 1939 (read by Dylan Thomas)
W.H. Auden — September 1, 1939 (read by Dylan Thomas) I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night. Accurate scholarship can Unearth the whole offence From Luther until now That has driven a culture mad, Find what occurred at Linz, What huge imago made A psychopathic god: I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. Exiled Thucydides knew All that a speech can say About Democracy, And what dictators do, The elderly rubbish they talk To an apathetic grave; Analysed all in his book, Th... -
Wystan Hugh Auden reads 'The Shield of Achilles' (1953)
W.H. Auden reads his comment on totalitarian society, published and written in 1953. I hope you enjoy the video, and please feel free to leave a comment. I do not own any rights to the recording. -
"Musee des Beaux Arts" by W H Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
Auden visited the Museum near Brussels in 1938 when he was 31. The references in the earlier part of the poem are to various paintings, obvious some about the nativity - the miraculous birth - but the latter part is about "The Fall of Icarus" by Pierre Breughel. The theme is that life goes on much the same regardless of personal tragedy. It's about the myth of Daedalus who made wings out of feathers and wax for himself and his son Icarus to escape from Crete. He told Icarus not to fly too near to the sun, but Icarus took no notice, the wax melted, he fell into the sea and was drowned. You can look at it as the tragedy of the father who kills his son, or as the son's foolhardiness in not taking heed of his father's advice. You can see Icarus' legs disappearing into the sea the lo... -
Tribute to W.H. Auden | 92Y Readings
http://92Y.org/VPC Poet W.H. Auden appeared at the 92nd Street Y more than 20 times between 1940 and 1972. In this tribute, his literary executor Edward Mendelson is joined by Shirley Hazzard, J.D. McClatchy, Ned Rorem, Charles Rosen and Oliver Sacks. Recorded March 5, 2007 at 92nd Street Y
W. H. Auden - Tell Me The Truth About Love (documentary)
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- Duration: 58:42
- Updated: 05 Jan 2012
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Documentary film looking at the poetry of W H Auden, revealing how it came not just from inspiration but from a rigorous scientific analysis of love itself. Whe...
Documentary film looking at the poetry of W H Auden, revealing how it came not just from inspiration but from a rigorous scientific analysis of love itself. When he died in 1973, he left behind some of the greatest love poems of the 20th century. Most of his unpublished material was destroyed, apart from two short journals and a series of jottings, containing diagrams and notes about the nature of love.
Produced and Directed by Susanna White.
wn.com/W. H. Auden Tell Me The Truth About Love (Documentary)
Documentary film looking at the poetry of W H Auden, revealing how it came not just from inspiration but from a rigorous scientific analysis of love itself. When he died in 1973, he left behind some of the greatest love poems of the 20th century. Most of his unpublished material was destroyed, apart from two short journals and a series of jottings, containing diagrams and notes about the nature of love.
Produced and Directed by Susanna White.
- published: 05 Jan 2012
- views: 93510
The Addictions of Sin: W.H. Auden in His Own Words
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- Duration: 58:10
- Updated: 06 Jan 2013
- views: 34517
To commemorate the centenary of the birth of one of Britain's most influential and best-loved poets, this film combines dramatizations of telling events in the ...
To commemorate the centenary of the birth of one of Britain's most influential and best-loved poets, this film combines dramatizations of telling events in the life of W.H. Auden with interviews from the TV and radio archives and extracts from Auden's poetry, notebooks, letters and journals.
wn.com/The Addictions Of Sin W.H. Auden In His Own Words
To commemorate the centenary of the birth of one of Britain's most influential and best-loved poets, this film combines dramatizations of telling events in the life of W.H. Auden with interviews from the TV and radio archives and extracts from Auden's poetry, notebooks, letters and journals.
- published: 06 Jan 2013
- views: 34517
The Addictions of Sin: W. H. Auden in His Own Words (6/6)
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- Duration: 9:22
- Updated: 18 Oct 2009
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Part 6
Part 6
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Part 6
- published: 18 Oct 2009
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WH Auden recites "Doggerel by a Senior Citizen" 1969
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- Duration: 3:11
- Updated: 14 Sep 2013
- views: 15574
Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 - 29 September 1973), who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, born in England, later an American citizen, ...
Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 - 29 September 1973), who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, born in England, later an American citizen, regarded by many critics as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. His work is noted for its stylistic and technical achievements, its engagement with moral and political issues, and its variety of tone, form and content. The central themes of his poetry are love, politics and citizenship, religion and morals, and the relationship between unique human beings and the anonymous, impersonal world of nature. (Wikipedia)
From Dutch Television: VPRO
More on Literary Arts, check my playlist:
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wn.com/Wh Auden Recites Doggerel By A Senior Citizen 1969
Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 - 29 September 1973), who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, born in England, later an American citizen, regarded by many critics as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. His work is noted for its stylistic and technical achievements, its engagement with moral and political issues, and its variety of tone, form and content. The central themes of his poetry are love, politics and citizenship, religion and morals, and the relationship between unique human beings and the anonymous, impersonal world of nature. (Wikipedia)
From Dutch Television: VPRO
More on Literary Arts, check my playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdfetz8BhaRhbxZbq5a7l4H1yIOY0vFMK
- published: 14 Sep 2013
- views: 15574
22. W. H. Auden
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- Duration: 44:39
- Updated: 06 Dec 2012
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Modern Poetry (ENGL 310) with Langdon Hammer
This lecture presents the early poetry of W.H. Auden. In "From the Very First Coming Down," Auden's relationship t...
Modern Poetry (ENGL 310) with Langdon Hammer
This lecture presents the early poetry of W.H. Auden. In "From the Very First Coming Down," Auden's relationship to the reader is considered, as well as the role of economy, truth, and morality in his poetics. The political Auden is examined in "Spain" and "September 1, 1939," along with his later practice of revising controversial poems. Finally, his interest in traditional forms, his vision of love, and his characteristic perspectivism, are explored in "This Lunar Beauty" and "As I Walked Out One Evening."
00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: Wystan Hugh Auden
04:57 - Chapter 2. The Early W. H. Auden
12:08 - Chapter 3. W. H. Auden Poem: "From the Very First Coming Down"
20:39 - Chapter 4. W. H. Auden Poem: "Spain"
24:09 - Chapter 5. W. H. Auden Poem: "September 1, 1939"
30:58 - Chapter 6. W. H. Auden Poems: "This Lunar Beauty" and "Lullaby"
36:31 - Chapter 7. W. H. Auden Poem: "As I Walked Out One Evening"
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://oyc.yale.edu
This course was recorded in Spring 2007.
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Modern Poetry (ENGL 310) with Langdon Hammer
This lecture presents the early poetry of W.H. Auden. In "From the Very First Coming Down," Auden's relationship to the reader is considered, as well as the role of economy, truth, and morality in his poetics. The political Auden is examined in "Spain" and "September 1, 1939," along with his later practice of revising controversial poems. Finally, his interest in traditional forms, his vision of love, and his characteristic perspectivism, are explored in "This Lunar Beauty" and "As I Walked Out One Evening."
00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: Wystan Hugh Auden
04:57 - Chapter 2. The Early W. H. Auden
12:08 - Chapter 3. W. H. Auden Poem: "From the Very First Coming Down"
20:39 - Chapter 4. W. H. Auden Poem: "Spain"
24:09 - Chapter 5. W. H. Auden Poem: "September 1, 1939"
30:58 - Chapter 6. W. H. Auden Poems: "This Lunar Beauty" and "Lullaby"
36:31 - Chapter 7. W. H. Auden Poem: "As I Walked Out One Evening"
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://oyc.yale.edu
This course was recorded in Spring 2007.
- published: 06 Dec 2012
- views: 8475
Wystan Hugh Auden - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
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- Duration: 2:39
- Updated: 05 Dec 2009
- views: 45565
W.H. Auden reads his thought-provoking lyric 'As I Walked Out One Evening', written in 1937. I hope you enjoy the film, and please feel free to post a comment. ...
W.H. Auden reads his thought-provoking lyric 'As I Walked Out One Evening', written in 1937. I hope you enjoy the film, and please feel free to post a comment. I do not own any rights to the recording.
wn.com/Wystan Hugh Auden As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
W.H. Auden reads his thought-provoking lyric 'As I Walked Out One Evening', written in 1937. I hope you enjoy the film, and please feel free to post a comment. I do not own any rights to the recording.
- published: 05 Dec 2009
- views: 45565
W.H. Auden Funeral Blues - BBC's Best Version on You Tube
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:34
- Updated: 07 Mar 2013
- views: 46949
This is the recording of W.H Auden's wonderful poem Funeral Blues from the BBC program "The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words." It uses four well kn...
This is the recording of W.H Auden's wonderful poem Funeral Blues from the BBC program "The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words." It uses four well known actors and a gentle piano accompanient to make what is one of the best renditions of this poem available. I have mixed in what I feel are suitable photos and a back projection of an actual funeral. This poem was made hugely popular after appearing in Richard Curtis's award winning film " Four Wedding's and a Funeral".
wn.com/W.H. Auden Funeral Blues Bbc's Best Version On You Tube
This is the recording of W.H Auden's wonderful poem Funeral Blues from the BBC program "The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words." It uses four well known actors and a gentle piano accompanient to make what is one of the best renditions of this poem available. I have mixed in what I feel are suitable photos and a back projection of an actual funeral. This poem was made hugely popular after appearing in Richard Curtis's award winning film " Four Wedding's and a Funeral".
- published: 07 Mar 2013
- views: 46949
"1st September 1939" by W.H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 29 Dec 2008
- views: 73046
On this day Hitler invaded Poland and WWII broke out. Thucydides was an honest historian, the originator of Political Realism which observes that the relations...
On this day Hitler invaded Poland and WWII broke out. Thucydides was an honest historian, the originator of Political Realism which observes that the relationship between countries is based on strength and not which is in the right. His work is still studied in military academies.
wn.com/1St September 1939 By W.H. Auden (Read By Tom O'Bedlam)
On this day Hitler invaded Poland and WWII broke out. Thucydides was an honest historian, the originator of Political Realism which observes that the relationship between countries is based on strength and not which is in the right. His work is still studied in military academies.
- published: 29 Dec 2008
- views: 73046
W.H. Auden reads In Memory of W.B. Yeats (I)
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- Duration: 1:51
- Updated: 25 Jul 2010
- views: 30789
"If I Could Tell You" by W.H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:25
- Updated: 01 Oct 2009
- views: 77529
This poem was published and probably written in 1940, when the future and the consequences of actions were most unpredictable.
The picture is of Auden with...
This poem was published and probably written in 1940, when the future and the consequences of actions were most unpredictable.
The picture is of Auden with Christopher Isherwood at about the same time as he wrote this poem.
"Time Unveiling Truth" was painted by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in about 1745
wn.com/If I Could Tell You By W.H. Auden (Read By Tom O'Bedlam)
This poem was published and probably written in 1940, when the future and the consequences of actions were most unpredictable.
The picture is of Auden with Christopher Isherwood at about the same time as he wrote this poem.
"Time Unveiling Truth" was painted by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in about 1745
- published: 01 Oct 2009
- views: 77529
As I Walked Out one Evening by W. H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:22
- Updated: 30 Jan 2009
- views: 88930
Peter Szewczyk made this reading into a film - here it is on video http://vimeo.com/25287438
Auden wrote this poem in 1937, when he was 30.
"Lily White Boys"...
Peter Szewczyk made this reading into a film - here it is on video http://vimeo.com/25287438
Auden wrote this poem in 1937, when he was 30.
"Lily White Boys" come form a song "Green Grow the Rushes, O" (not the one by Rabbie Burns). Ben Jonson makes reference to "roaring boys" and so does Tom O' Bedlam's song.
I couldn't find a picture of Bristol Street, Birmingham, but trams would have been running then. The photograph was taken by D J Norton in about 1950 of a street nearby.
wn.com/As I Walked Out One Evening By W. H. Auden (Read By Tom O'Bedlam)
Peter Szewczyk made this reading into a film - here it is on video http://vimeo.com/25287438
Auden wrote this poem in 1937, when he was 30.
"Lily White Boys" come form a song "Green Grow the Rushes, O" (not the one by Rabbie Burns). Ben Jonson makes reference to "roaring boys" and so does Tom O' Bedlam's song.
I couldn't find a picture of Bristol Street, Birmingham, but trams would have been running then. The photograph was taken by D J Norton in about 1950 of a street nearby.
- published: 30 Jan 2009
- views: 88930
PTMGMC: Simon Schama reads W.H. Auden
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- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 08 Oct 2014
- views: 1127
Historian and author Simon Schama reads 'Lullaby' by W.H. Auden, and tells us why it always moves him to tears.
Find out more about Poems 'That Make Grown Men ...
Historian and author Simon Schama reads 'Lullaby' by W.H. Auden, and tells us why it always moves him to tears.
Find out more about Poems 'That Make Grown Men Cry': http://books.simonandschuster.co.uk/Poems-That-Make-Grown-Men-Cry/Anthony-Holden/9781471134890
wn.com/Ptmgmc Simon Schama Reads W.H. Auden
Historian and author Simon Schama reads 'Lullaby' by W.H. Auden, and tells us why it always moves him to tears.
Find out more about Poems 'That Make Grown Men Cry': http://books.simonandschuster.co.uk/Poems-That-Make-Grown-Men-Cry/Anthony-Holden/9781471134890
- published: 08 Oct 2014
- views: 1127
Hitchens '07: Quotes W.H. Auden
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- Duration: 1:05
- Updated: 17 Apr 2012
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Mon., June 4th, 2007 7:00 PM. Los Angeles. Christopher Hitchens in conversat...
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Mon., June 4th, 2007 7:00 PM. Los Angeles. Christopher Hitchens in conversation with Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times columnist, about "God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything"
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/12/In-Memoriam-Christopher-Hitchens-19492011 Vanity Fair In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949--2011, by Juli Weiner, Dec 15th 2011. Christopher Hitchens—the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant—died today at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in the spring of 2010, just after the publication of his memoir, Hitch-22, and began chemotherapy soon after. "My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends," he wrote in the June 2011 issue. He died in their presence, too, at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. May his 62 years of living, well, so livingly console the many of us who will miss him dearly
Christopher Eric Hitchens (born 13 April 1949) is an Anglo-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became a media fellow at the Hoover Institution in September 2008. He is a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits and in 2005 was voted the world's fifth top public intellectual in a Prospect/Foreign Policy poll.
Hitchens is known for his admiration of George Orwell, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson and for his excoriating critiques of, among others, Mother Teresa, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Henry Kissinger. His confrontational style of debate has made him both a lauded and controversial figure. As a political observer, polemicist and self-defined radical, he rose to prominence as a fixture of the left-wing publications in his native Britain and in the United States. His departure from the established political left began in 1989 after what he called the "tepid reaction" of the Western left following Ayatollah Khomeini's issue of a fatwa- calling for the murder of Salman Rushdie. The 11 September 2001 attacks strengthened his internationalist embrace of an interventionist foreign policy, and his vociferous criticism of what he called "fascism with an Islamic face." His numerous editorials in support of the Iraq War caused some to label him a neoconservative, although Hitchens insists he is not "a conservative of any kind."
Identified as a champion of the "New Atheism" movement, Hitchens describes himself as an antitheist and a believer in the philosophical values of the Enlightenment. Hitchens says that a person "could be an atheist and wish that belief in god were correct," but that "an antitheist, a term I'm trying to get into circulation, is someone who is relieved that there's no evidence for such an assertion." He argues that the concept of god or a supreme being is a totalitarian belief that destroys individual freedom, and that free expression and scientific discovery should replace religion as a means of teaching ethics and defining human civilization. He wrote at length on atheism and the nature of religion in his 2007 book God Is Not Great.
Though Hitchens retained his British citizenship, he became a United States citizen on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial on 13 April 2007, his 58th birthday. Asteroid 57901 is named after him. His memoir, Hitch-22, was published in June 2010. Touring for the book was cut short later the same month so that he could begin treatment for newly diagnosed oesophageal cancer.
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Mon., June 4th, 2007 7:00 PM. Los Angeles. Christopher Hitchens in conversation with Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times columnist, about "God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything"
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/12/In-Memoriam-Christopher-Hitchens-19492011 Vanity Fair In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949--2011, by Juli Weiner, Dec 15th 2011. Christopher Hitchens—the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant—died today at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in the spring of 2010, just after the publication of his memoir, Hitch-22, and began chemotherapy soon after. "My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends," he wrote in the June 2011 issue. He died in their presence, too, at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. May his 62 years of living, well, so livingly console the many of us who will miss him dearly
Christopher Eric Hitchens (born 13 April 1949) is an Anglo-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became a media fellow at the Hoover Institution in September 2008. He is a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits and in 2005 was voted the world's fifth top public intellectual in a Prospect/Foreign Policy poll.
Hitchens is known for his admiration of George Orwell, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson and for his excoriating critiques of, among others, Mother Teresa, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Henry Kissinger. His confrontational style of debate has made him both a lauded and controversial figure. As a political observer, polemicist and self-defined radical, he rose to prominence as a fixture of the left-wing publications in his native Britain and in the United States. His departure from the established political left began in 1989 after what he called the "tepid reaction" of the Western left following Ayatollah Khomeini's issue of a fatwa- calling for the murder of Salman Rushdie. The 11 September 2001 attacks strengthened his internationalist embrace of an interventionist foreign policy, and his vociferous criticism of what he called "fascism with an Islamic face." His numerous editorials in support of the Iraq War caused some to label him a neoconservative, although Hitchens insists he is not "a conservative of any kind."
Identified as a champion of the "New Atheism" movement, Hitchens describes himself as an antitheist and a believer in the philosophical values of the Enlightenment. Hitchens says that a person "could be an atheist and wish that belief in god were correct," but that "an antitheist, a term I'm trying to get into circulation, is someone who is relieved that there's no evidence for such an assertion." He argues that the concept of god or a supreme being is a totalitarian belief that destroys individual freedom, and that free expression and scientific discovery should replace religion as a means of teaching ethics and defining human civilization. He wrote at length on atheism and the nature of religion in his 2007 book God Is Not Great.
Though Hitchens retained his British citizenship, he became a United States citizen on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial on 13 April 2007, his 58th birthday. Asteroid 57901 is named after him. His memoir, Hitch-22, was published in June 2010. Touring for the book was cut short later the same month so that he could begin treatment for newly diagnosed oesophageal cancer.
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O Tell Me the Truth About Love by W.H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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This is Auden being facetious about a serious subject.
This is Auden being facetious about a serious subject.
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This is Auden being facetious about a serious subject.
- published: 12 Oct 2008
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Moonlanding W H Auden
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W.H. Auden reciting parts of his poem Moonlanding
W.H. Auden reciting parts of his poem Moonlanding
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W.H. Auden reads 'In Praise of Limestone'
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W.H. Auden reads his 1948 poem 'In Praise of Limestone'.
W.H. Auden reads his 1948 poem 'In Praise of Limestone'.
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W.H. Auden reads 'The Unknown Citizen'
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WH Auden reads "The More Loving One"
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A reading of "The More Loving One" by WH Auden.
The poem in full:
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for ...
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A reading of "The More Loving One" by WH Auden.
The poem in full:
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.
Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total darkness sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.
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A reading of "The More Loving One" by WH Auden.
The poem in full:
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.
Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total darkness sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.
- published: 08 Jul 2011
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Funeral Blues - Four Weddings and a Funeral
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Funeral Blues
WH Auden
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bri...
Funeral Blues
WH Auden
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
Read by Matthew, as played by John Hanna.
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Funeral Blues
WH Auden
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
Read by Matthew, as played by John Hanna.
I do not own this video. No copyright infringement intended.
- published: 22 Sep 2009
- views: 209072
W.H. Auden — September 1, 1939 (read by Dylan Thomas)
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- Duration: 3:28
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W.H. Auden — September 1, 1939 (read by Dylan Thomas)
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low...
W.H. Auden — September 1, 1939 (read by Dylan Thomas)
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth,
Obsessing our private lives;
The unmentionable odour of death
Offends the September night.
Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven a culture mad,
Find what occurred at Linz,
What huge imago made
A psychopathic god:
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
Exiled Thucydides knew
All that a speech can say
About Democracy,
And what dictators do,
The elderly rubbish they talk
To an apathetic grave;
Analysed all in his book,
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again.
Into this neutral air
Where blind skyscrapers use
Their full height to proclaim
The strength of Collective Man,
Each language pours its vain
Competitive excuse:
But who can live for long
In an euphoric dream;
Out of the mirror they stare,
Imperialism's face
And the international wrong.
Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play,
All the conventions conspire
To make this fort assume
The furniture of home;
Lest we should see where we are,
Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.
The windiest militant trash
Important Persons shout
Is not so crude as our wish:
What mad Nijinsky wrote
About Diaghilev
Is true of the normal heart;
For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have,
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.
From the conservative dark
Into the ethical life
The dense commuters come,
Repeating their morning vow;
"I will be true to the wife,
I'll concentrate more on my work,"
And helpless governors wake
To resume their compulsory game:
Who can release them now,
Who can reach the deaf,
Who can speak for the dumb?
All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
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W.H. Auden — September 1, 1939 (read by Dylan Thomas)
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth,
Obsessing our private lives;
The unmentionable odour of death
Offends the September night.
Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven a culture mad,
Find what occurred at Linz,
What huge imago made
A psychopathic god:
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
Exiled Thucydides knew
All that a speech can say
About Democracy,
And what dictators do,
The elderly rubbish they talk
To an apathetic grave;
Analysed all in his book,
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again.
Into this neutral air
Where blind skyscrapers use
Their full height to proclaim
The strength of Collective Man,
Each language pours its vain
Competitive excuse:
But who can live for long
In an euphoric dream;
Out of the mirror they stare,
Imperialism's face
And the international wrong.
Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play,
All the conventions conspire
To make this fort assume
The furniture of home;
Lest we should see where we are,
Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.
The windiest militant trash
Important Persons shout
Is not so crude as our wish:
What mad Nijinsky wrote
About Diaghilev
Is true of the normal heart;
For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have,
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.
From the conservative dark
Into the ethical life
The dense commuters come,
Repeating their morning vow;
"I will be true to the wife,
I'll concentrate more on my work,"
And helpless governors wake
To resume their compulsory game:
Who can release them now,
Who can reach the deaf,
Who can speak for the dumb?
All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
- published: 23 May 2010
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Wystan Hugh Auden reads 'The Shield of Achilles' (1953)
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W.H. Auden reads his comment on totalitarian society, published and written in 1953. I hope you enjoy the video, and please feel free to leave a comment. I do n...
W.H. Auden reads his comment on totalitarian society, published and written in 1953. I hope you enjoy the video, and please feel free to leave a comment. I do not own any rights to the recording.
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W.H. Auden reads his comment on totalitarian society, published and written in 1953. I hope you enjoy the video, and please feel free to leave a comment. I do not own any rights to the recording.
- published: 08 Dec 2009
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"Musee des Beaux Arts" by W H Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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- Duration: 1:28
- Updated: 06 Aug 2009
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Auden visited the Museum near Brussels in 1938 when he was 31. The references in the earlier part of the poem are to various paintings, obvious some about the...
Auden visited the Museum near Brussels in 1938 when he was 31. The references in the earlier part of the poem are to various paintings, obvious some about the nativity - the miraculous birth - but the latter part is about "The Fall of Icarus" by Pierre Breughel. The theme is that life goes on much the same regardless of personal tragedy.
It's about the myth of Daedalus who made wings out of feathers and wax for himself and his son Icarus to escape from Crete. He told Icarus not to fly too near to the sun, but Icarus took no notice, the wax melted, he fell into the sea and was drowned. You can look at it as the tragedy of the father who kills his son, or as the son's foolhardiness in not taking heed of his father's advice.
You can see Icarus' legs disappearing into the sea the lower right corner of the picture. In fact only the legs and the title have any relevance. Without these it would be just a landscape. Is there any real relevance in the rest of the picture? Why is the sun setting, for instance? Icarus must have been falling for a long time. The ship's sails are full of wind but nothing else seems to be affected by it. Maybe Pierre thought to himself, "This landscape is boring, I know, I'll paint some comedy legs 20 ft long sticking out of the water and call it 'The Fall of Icarus'."
Auden's poem too is about how uninvolved with the tragedy the remainder of the picture seems. One might think that things could hardly have been different, there wasn't time for the other figures to show a reaction to a boy plummeting into the sea, the ploughman wouldn't have heard the spash and the forsaken cry, the ship wouldn't have had time to change course. But this is modern thinking, corrupted by photography.
Photography changed Art fundamentally with the concept of a moment in time captured. It's easy to recognise pictures painted after photography was invented. In these paintings perspective is correct, even though it's usually only correct for what the camera sees and not what the human eye sees, running horses have their legs in the right places, and so forth.
A painting isn't a photograph. The idea of the moment frozen in time had not been a concern of earlier artists. Like children drawing a face, artists didn't so much paint what they saw as what they knew to be there - or the way they wished to see it. The impressionists painted what they noticed rather than what they saw. Thus it didn't matter to artists that all the elements that they depicted couldn't reasonably have happened at the same time.
Also, before photography, Art was a commercial venture, the only way of making a picture. These days we assume that the artist painted the whole of the picture - back then, it was less likely. A studio might have apprentices to paint the sky, grass or background scenery and maybe experts who had a special talent for hands or drapery.
Art was usually commissioned, meaning ordered in advance and prepared to a specification. The artist was charged with the task of capturing somebody's pretty daughter on canvas while she was still in the bloom of youth. Some, such as madonnas and figures from mythology was just an excuse to paint naked people, pornography for clients who could afford it. (Some cynic said about modern art that the difference between Art and Pornography was that if it's the right colour and you can see it clearly, then it's Pornography)
So it makes little sense to examine these ancient pictures as though every part of them had some significance. Maybe Breughel just added something to a picture which lacked a focal point. Maybe he had an apprentice who was good at painting sheep and ships. Some things are there because they just happen to fill the space and they have no more significance than that. To be an artist it wasn't necessary to be a social commentator or hide deeper meanings, it was only necessary to please the client. Artists were the equivalent of modern commercial photographers or even the guys who now design video games. We should beware of trying to squeeze too much out of a damp sponge.
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Auden visited the Museum near Brussels in 1938 when he was 31. The references in the earlier part of the poem are to various paintings, obvious some about the nativity - the miraculous birth - but the latter part is about "The Fall of Icarus" by Pierre Breughel. The theme is that life goes on much the same regardless of personal tragedy.
It's about the myth of Daedalus who made wings out of feathers and wax for himself and his son Icarus to escape from Crete. He told Icarus not to fly too near to the sun, but Icarus took no notice, the wax melted, he fell into the sea and was drowned. You can look at it as the tragedy of the father who kills his son, or as the son's foolhardiness in not taking heed of his father's advice.
You can see Icarus' legs disappearing into the sea the lower right corner of the picture. In fact only the legs and the title have any relevance. Without these it would be just a landscape. Is there any real relevance in the rest of the picture? Why is the sun setting, for instance? Icarus must have been falling for a long time. The ship's sails are full of wind but nothing else seems to be affected by it. Maybe Pierre thought to himself, "This landscape is boring, I know, I'll paint some comedy legs 20 ft long sticking out of the water and call it 'The Fall of Icarus'."
Auden's poem too is about how uninvolved with the tragedy the remainder of the picture seems. One might think that things could hardly have been different, there wasn't time for the other figures to show a reaction to a boy plummeting into the sea, the ploughman wouldn't have heard the spash and the forsaken cry, the ship wouldn't have had time to change course. But this is modern thinking, corrupted by photography.
Photography changed Art fundamentally with the concept of a moment in time captured. It's easy to recognise pictures painted after photography was invented. In these paintings perspective is correct, even though it's usually only correct for what the camera sees and not what the human eye sees, running horses have their legs in the right places, and so forth.
A painting isn't a photograph. The idea of the moment frozen in time had not been a concern of earlier artists. Like children drawing a face, artists didn't so much paint what they saw as what they knew to be there - or the way they wished to see it. The impressionists painted what they noticed rather than what they saw. Thus it didn't matter to artists that all the elements that they depicted couldn't reasonably have happened at the same time.
Also, before photography, Art was a commercial venture, the only way of making a picture. These days we assume that the artist painted the whole of the picture - back then, it was less likely. A studio might have apprentices to paint the sky, grass or background scenery and maybe experts who had a special talent for hands or drapery.
Art was usually commissioned, meaning ordered in advance and prepared to a specification. The artist was charged with the task of capturing somebody's pretty daughter on canvas while she was still in the bloom of youth. Some, such as madonnas and figures from mythology was just an excuse to paint naked people, pornography for clients who could afford it. (Some cynic said about modern art that the difference between Art and Pornography was that if it's the right colour and you can see it clearly, then it's Pornography)
So it makes little sense to examine these ancient pictures as though every part of them had some significance. Maybe Breughel just added something to a picture which lacked a focal point. Maybe he had an apprentice who was good at painting sheep and ships. Some things are there because they just happen to fill the space and they have no more significance than that. To be an artist it wasn't necessary to be a social commentator or hide deeper meanings, it was only necessary to please the client. Artists were the equivalent of modern commercial photographers or even the guys who now design video games. We should beware of trying to squeeze too much out of a damp sponge.
- published: 06 Aug 2009
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Tribute to W.H. Auden | 92Y Readings
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- Duration: 94:13
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Poet W.H. Auden appeared at the 92nd Street Y more than 20 times between 1940 and 1972. In this tribute, his literary executor Edward Mende...
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Poet W.H. Auden appeared at the 92nd Street Y more than 20 times between 1940 and 1972. In this tribute, his literary executor Edward Mendelson is joined by Shirley Hazzard, J.D. McClatchy, Ned Rorem, Charles Rosen and Oliver Sacks.
Recorded March 5, 2007 at 92nd Street Y
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Poet W.H. Auden appeared at the 92nd Street Y more than 20 times between 1940 and 1972. In this tribute, his literary executor Edward Mendelson is joined by Shirley Hazzard, J.D. McClatchy, Ned Rorem, Charles Rosen and Oliver Sacks.
Recorded March 5, 2007 at 92nd Street Y
- published: 01 Jun 2012
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W. H. Auden - Tell Me The Truth About Love (documentary)
Documentary film looking at the poetry of W H Auden, revealing how it came not just from i...
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The Addictions of Sin: W.H. Auden in His Own Words
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WH Auden recites "Doggerel by a Senior Citizen" 1969
Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 - 29 September 1973), who published as W. H. Auden, wa...
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22. W. H. Auden
Modern Poetry (ENGL 310) with Langdon Hammer
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Wystan Hugh Auden - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
W.H. Auden reads his thought-provoking lyric 'As I Walked Out One Evening', written in 193...
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W.H. Auden Funeral Blues - BBC's Best Version on You Tube
This is the recording of W.H Auden's wonderful poem Funeral Blues from the BBC program "Th...
published: 07 Mar 2013
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"1st September 1939" by W.H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
On this day Hitler invaded Poland and WWII broke out. Thucydides was an honest historian,...
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W.H. Auden reads In Memory of W.B. Yeats (I)
W.H. Auden reads his poem In Memory of W.B. Yeats (I).
published: 25 Jul 2010
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"If I Could Tell You" by W.H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
This poem was published and probably written in 1940, when the future and the consequences...
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As I Walked Out one Evening by W. H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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published: 30 Jan 2009
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PTMGMC: Simon Schama reads W.H. Auden
Historian and author Simon Schama reads 'Lullaby' by W.H. Auden, and tells us why it alway...
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Hitchens '07: Quotes W.H. Auden
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O Tell Me the Truth About Love by W.H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
This is Auden being facetious about a serious subject.
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44 Scotland Street: To Stockbridge, and beyond
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Their walk led them along Cumberland Street towards Stockbridge. At the bottom of the brae, where St Vincent Street completes its short, cobbled journey, Domenica pointed out St Vincent’s Chapel. “A small church,” she said. “But very high. Incense and so on.”. “If God exists,” said Nicola, “do you think he cares how he's worshipped?”. “Or if he's worshipped at all?”. Nicola thought about this ... “Oh.” ... “There's Auden's September 1, 1939 ... ....
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Florida State's young quarterbacks shine during spring game
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If there is anything definitive to glean from Florida State's annual Garnet and Gold spring game Saturday, it's the future of the quarterback position appears promising. Redshirt freshman Deondre Francois and true freshman Malik Henry performed well overall ... The Seminoles entered spring ball in need of a identifying a big-time red zone receiving threat and 6-foot-5, 218 sophomore Auden Tate looked very much the part ... View Comments 0 ....
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Zia Mohyeddin —Arif Ali/White Star. Zia Mohyeddin’s distinguished career ranges from his critically acclaimed performances on television, stage and film in Britain and the United States as well as his mesmerising renditions of Ghalib and Faiz in Pakistan ... Mohyeddin’s third essay collection, The God of My Idolatry ... Mohyeddin’s book is framed by two essays which refer to A Passage to India ... Auden to Virginia Woolf, Edna O’Brien, W.B....
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Since April is the cruelest month, or so quoth the poet, does that have anything to do with it also being Poetry Month?. Is it like that scam by which Black History Month is February, the shortest month?. Oh, damn the conspiracy theories ... Alfred Prufrock” by T.S ... Poetry has never been healthier, or more necessary, and it doesn’t take a national catastrophe and a populace turning oddly to Auden to make it so ... Advertisement ....
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From billionaire to bodyguard to father-to-be, these stories about existentially marooned men are the work of a first-rate writer. I once had a discussion with my first US editor, an old-school literary titan of 40 years’ experience, on the subject of overt existential angst in the novel ... “If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well / It were done quickly” ... How so? ... Auden’s “If I Could Tell You” introduces story nine ... fair enough ... ....
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What funny graduation quotes might be cited on such a celebratory occasion? Here are some favorite commencement quips, arranged alphabetically by speaker (or writer). “A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.” W.H.Auden (1907 – 1973). W.H. Auden, the prolific British poet with the Saharan wit, aimed this graduation quote at college and university faculty ... "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." ... Bush (1946 - ) ... ....
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