Litsy

TheSpineView

Collected Poems | W H Auden

#PoetryMatters @TheSpineView
#Unimportant

dabbe That last stanza: wow. 💙💚💙 9mo

TheSpineView @dabbe IK! 💜 9mo

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bibliothecarivs

W.H. Auden: The Life of a Poet | Charles Osborne

Recent acquisitions:

📖 W. H. Auden: The Life of a Poet by Charles Osborne
📖 Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning by Norman Rabkin
📖 Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín

#UniteAgainstBookBans #LetUtahRead

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GatheringBooks

Collected Poems | W H Auden

#PoetryMatters Day 20: #Tyrant

TheSpineView

TheSpineView Great minds! We choose the same poem. 🤩 10mo

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TheSpineView

Another Time | W. H. Auden

#PoetryMatters @TheSpineView #Tyrant

dabbe A whoah one. 💜🧡💜 10mo

TheSpineView @dabbe 👍🤩😊 10mo

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GatheringBooks

Collected Poems | W H Auden

#PoetryMatters Day 7: #Total

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TheSpineView 💜💜💜 14mo

dabbe 🖤💜🖤 14mo

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TheSpineView

Collected Poems | W H Auden

#PoetryMatters @TheSpineView
#Stop

bthegood I have this hanging in my home office - I really like it 🙂 2y

TheSpineView @bthegood 😍 2y

dabbe A whoah one. 🩵🤍🩵 2y

TheSpineView @dabbe Totally!🤩 2y

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IndoorDame

The Sea and the Mirror | W.H. Auden

bailed

I‘m finding this too esoteric. #Roll100 @PuddleJumper

PuddleJumper I didn't know he wrote longer form poems. I enjoy his other works, I'll have to look out for this 2y

dabbe Sometimes those modernists really wanted to make things difficult for the reader. I love challenging works, but I don't like challenging works just for the sake of showing me how brilliant you are. (not that I know WH is doing this here, but that's usually when I bail on a modernist piece of literature). 2y

IndoorDame @dabbe it might be me not WH, but the whole time I was reading I kept thinking I just read The vTempest and I still feel like I need the benefit of a college lecture to get this. Not worth it… 2y

dabbe @IndoorDame Well, that's another thing we have in common (sort of). I tried to read WH and couldn't even get past a few pieces. And my feelings why are the same as yours. And now that I'm (ahem) older, life is short, and I want to enjoy what I read and be challenged but not necessarily oh-good-lord-not-another-plea-to-have-our-book-club-read-Ulysses challenged. That was fun to write. 😊 2y

IndoorDame @dabbe haha I‘m with you there! Challenged is good. But I have yet to hear anything about Ulysses that makes me even slightly tempted to tackle it 2y

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IndoorDame

The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose. 1939-1948 | Wystan Hugh Auden