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A Certain World: A Commonplace Book | Wystan Hugh Auden

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

wanderinglynn

Collected Poems | W H Auden

By W.H. Auden (one of my favorite poets)

#aprilpoetrychallenge for #nationalpoetrymonth

28 April - midnight

dabbe 🖤🖤🖤 3mo

Read-n-Bloom Beautiful poem. 😭 3mo

kspenmoll Lovely. 3mo

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TheBookHippie Love!!! 3mo

marleed Ohhh, tears every time. The first time I hear this was in the movie Four weddings and a funeral. It was also recited at my husband‘s memorial (nearly 18 years ago - geez, I wonder if he‘d know me now). 3mo

wanderinglynn @marleed ❤️❤️❤️ 3mo

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TheSpineView

Collected Poems | W H Auden

#PoetryMatters @TheSpineView
#Unimportant

dabbe That last stanza: wow. 💙💚💙 14mo

TheSpineView @dabbe IK! 💜 14mo

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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

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TheSpineView Great minds! We choose the same poem. 🤩 1y

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TheSpineView

Another Time | W. H. Auden

#PoetryMatters @TheSpineView #Tyrant

dabbe A whoah one. 💜🧡💜 1y

TheSpineView @dabbe 👍🤩😊 1y

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GatheringBooks

Collected Poems | W H Auden

#PoetryMatters Day 7: #Total

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TheSpineView 💜💜💜 2y

dabbe 🖤💜🖤 2y

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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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