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- "A Summer Night" and Fragments - Full text of Auden's poem "A Summer Night" ("Out on the lawn I lie in bed"), Auden's scherzo for Benjamin Britten's opera "Ballad of Heroes", and fragments from "The Witnesses."
www.indiana.edu/~histweb/spring2000/ipsen/e103/Assignments/Auden_Assignment.htm
- A Selection of British Poetry: Auden - Many Auden poems, including "Canzone", "As We Like It", "The Labyrinth" and selections from "Songs and Musical Pieces"
www.daimi.aau.dk/~sorsha/lit/WHAuden.html
- As I Walked Out One Evening - Text at the University of Calgary.
www.ras.ucalgary.ca/~gibson/poems/auden1.html
- Bumbleshoot: W.H. Auden - Twenty-eight poems by Auden. Includes many short poems.
members.tripod.com/~bumbleshoot/poetry/auden.html
- Demon or Gift: from Later Auden - This, the first chapter from Edward Mendelson's book "Later Auden," analyses the poem "In Memory of W.B. Yeats."
www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/mendelson-auden.html
- Edward Lear - Auden's sonnet on this Victorian writer, at the Edward Lear Home Page.
edwardlear.tripod.com/auden.html
- Frank Kermode on Auden's Shakespeare - Auden's Lectures on Shakespeare (ed. Arthur Kirsch), reviewed for the London Review of Books by Frank Kermode.
www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n04/kerm2304.htm
- Funeral Blues - Text of this popular Auden poem. First line: "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone."
alt.venus.co.uk/weed/writings/poems/whafb.htm
- Horae Canonicae - Text of Auden's sequence of religious poems.
spintongues.vladivostok.com/auden9eng.htm
- In Memory of W. B. Yeats - Text of Auden's best known elegy.
www.newtrix.com/poems/wha-yeats.htm
- In Time of War/Sonnets from China - Full text of Auden's 1938 sonnet sequence.
home.earthlink.net/~ostomo/china.html
- Law Like Love - Text of this Auden poem. First line: "Law, say the gardeners, is the sun".
www.crocker.com/~slinberg/poems/auden/lawlikelove.html
- Lullaby - Text of Auden's poem. First lines: "Lay your sleeping head, my love/Human on my faithless arm."
www.palace.net/~llama/poetry/lullaby
- Musée des Beaux Arts - Analysis of poem. First line: "About suffering they were never wrong." Includes Breughel's painting "The Fall of Icarus", which the poem refers to.
poetrypages.lemon8.nl/life/musee/museebeauxarts.htm
- Narrator - The last speaking part of Auden's Christmas oratorio "For the Time Being."
home.uchicago.edu/~narusso/m/narrator.html
- Night Clouds -- W.H. Auden - Text of five poems.
www.betelgeuse.co.nz/nightclouds/poets/auden.htm
- Night Mail - Text of this song, written for the documentary movie "The Night Mail", on the British postal system.
www.newearth.demon.co.uk/poems/lyric206.htm
- O who can ever gaze his fill - Text of Auden's song.
www.concentric.net/~Wkiernan/text/dance.html
- Poetry Page - Auden - Some poems, including "Fish in the unruffled lakes."
www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/2601/auden.html
- Readings: Two Songs for Hedli Anderson - Text of two Auden poems, "Funeral Blues" and "Johnny".
www.npr.org/programs/death/readings/poetry/aude.html
- Redeeming the Rake by David Schiff - Discussion of Stravinsky's Opera, "The Rake's Progress", for which Auden wrote the libretto.
www.theatlantic.com/issues/97nov/rake.htm
- Salon.com Audio: W. H. Auden - Recordings of Auden reading two poems, "Under Which Lyre" and "Law Like Love". Available in mp3 and RealMedia formats.
www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/auden
- September 1, 1939 - Text of one of Auden's most famous poems, which includes the line "We must love one another or die."
www.wargame.com/word/second/po22.html
- Song Texts - Texts of poems that have been set to music by Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten and others, including "Lullaby", "Nocturne" and "Elegy for JFK".
www.recmusic.org/lieder/a/auden
- The Composer - Text of Auden's sonnet.
www.english.swt.edu/Modern/Composer.html
- The Dyer's Hand - A review of Auden's collection of essays, by the poet John Berryman.
www.nybooks.com/articles/13750
- The Secret Agent - A famous if obscure early Auden poem.
www.clpgh.org/exhibit/auden/auden.html
- The Shield of Achilles - Text of this frequently anthologized poem.
www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/99/jrieffel/poetry/auden/achilles.html
- The Virtual Streetband - Words from W.H. Auden put to music with animations.
www.virtualstreetband.com
- The Watershed - One of Auden's earliest poems.
www.thebeckoning.com/poetry/auden/auden1.html
- There Will be no Peace - Text of this Auden poem at Jagiellonian University,Kraków, Poland.
www.filg.uj.edu.pl/ifa/przeklad/whapeace.html
- Under Which Lyre - Text of this poem, subtitled "A Reactionary Tract for the Times".
www.wizzards.net/mlworden/atyp/auden.htm
- W.H. Auden at the University of Dundee - Text of "In Praise of Limestone" and three short poems.
www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/~arb/speleo/auden.html
- W.H. Auden at wwwebcat.nl - 25 Auden poems, including "Look, Stranger (Seascape)", "This Lunar Beauty" and "Woken".
www.wwwebcat.nl/poetry/auden.htm
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