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“Last Wednesday I e-mailed W.H. Auden’s poem ‘September 1, 1939‘ to members of my family. Two days later a friend e-mailed it to me, ...
W. H. Auden is a 20th-century poet, born in England before immigrating to the United States in the 1930s “It’s some of the most beautiful poetry you will ever read,” Warren said of Auden’s ...
“A great book reads you,” W. H. Auden once wrote, meaning that you grasp the depths of a profound work of literary art the more you deepen your own sense of life. But a great work of art can also ...
W.H. Auden is a Greek poet, at least when it comes to nature. No, I don’t mean that he is all about olive trees and white sand beaches: I mean there is something fundamentally classical in his ...
When people close to me die, I read W H Auden’s Funeral Blues. I wallow in his description of the unparalleled, lonely pain that is grief, because I don’t want to talk to anyone and I don’t ...
In 1955, W. H. Auden published The Shield of Achilles. The poetry collection includes a lengthy sequence of poems that I would rate high among the spiritual and devotional classics of the 20th century ...
Last Wednesday I e-mailed W.H. Auden’s poem “September 1, 1939” to members of my family. Two days later a friend e-mailed it to me, having received it from another friend who was circulating it.
Fort Novosel's Commanding General, Maj. Gen. Clair A. Gill and his wife, Dr. Fran Gill, share their love for the base and service.