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Under Which Lyre - http://www.wizzards.net/mlworden/atyp/auden.htm
Text of this poem, subtitled "A Reactionary Tract for the Times". |
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Redeeming the Rake by David Schiff - http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97nov/rake.htm
Discussion of Stravinsky's Opera, "The Rake's Progress", for which Auden wrote the libretto. |
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Narrator - http://home.uchicago.edu/~narusso/m/narrator.html
The last speaking part of Auden's Christmas oratorio "For the Time Being." |
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Night Mail - http://www.newearth.demon.co.uk/poems/lyric206.htm
Text of this song, written for the documentary movie "The Night Mail", on the British postal system. |
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Funeral Blues - http://www.wussu.com/poems/whafb.htm
Text, discussion of the correct title, and scans of the original published version of this Auden poem. |
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A Selection of British Poetry: Auden - http://www.daimi.au.dk/~sorsha/lit/WHAuden.html
Many Auden poems, including "Canzone", "As We Like It", "The Labyrinth" and selections from "Songs and Musical Pieces" |
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The Watershed - http://www.thebeckoning.com/poetry/auden/auden1.html
One of Auden's earliest poems. |
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Horae Canonicae - http://spintongues.msk.ru/auden9eng.htm
Text of Auden's sequence of religious poems. |
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Salon.com Audio: W. H. Auden - http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/auden/
Recordings of Auden reading two poems, "Under Which Lyre" and "Law Like Love". Available in mp3 and RealMedia formats. |
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Song Texts - http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/a/auden/
Texts of poems that have been set to music by Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten and others, including "Lullaby", "Nocturne" and "Elegy for JFK". |