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Description

1. .1 linear feet ( 1 folder)

Summary

1. Typescript sermon (3 pages), with holograph revisions in ink, by the Anglo-American poet and writer W. H. Auden (1907-1973). Auden delivered this sermon during the Evensong service of October 24, 1965 at Christ Church, Oxford, at the invitation of College Chaplain John Gilling. Auden used the same title for one of four lectures given in memory of T. S. Eliot at the University of Kent, Canterbury, in October 1967. The sermon explores the nature of human speech as a reflection of Divine activity. The lecture incorporates some of the themes and text present in this sermon.

Subject

1. Auden, W. H (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 > Sermons
2. Auden, W. H (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 > Religion
3. Sermons
4. Authors
5. Poets

Genre/Form

1. Sermons.

Call number

1. Berg Coll 29967

Note

1. The title "Words & the Word" is written in pencil in a different hand at top; the name W. H. Auden is written next to it in ink.
2. A holograph revision in the typescript's final paragraph lacks the published quotation "The great advantage of the French language...."

Access (note)

1. Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Source (note)

1. Purchased from Helena Kojevnikov, 2019.

Publications (note)

1. The sermon is published under the title "Words and the Word" in The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, ed. Edward Mendelson, vol. 5, Prose: 1963-1968 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015), 404-407. The delivery of the sermon is identified and dated in the editor's introduction to the work. The lecture by the same title is also found in vol. 5, pp. 308-324, part IV of Auden's T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, published together under the title "Secondary Worlds."

Author

1. Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973, creator.

Title

1. Words and the Word (Sermon) : typescript with holograph revisions.

Production

1. circa 1965 October 24.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet

Restricted access

1. Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Publications

1. The sermon is published under the title "Words and the Word" in The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, ed. Edward Mendelson, vol. 5, Prose: 1963-1968 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015), 404-407. The delivery of the sermon is identified and dated in the editor's introduction to the work. The lecture by the same title is also found in vol. 5, pp. 308-324, part IV of Auden's T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, published together under the title "Secondary Worlds."

Source

1. Purchased from Helena Kojevnikov, 2019.

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1. Request access to this item in the Berg Collection
2. Finding aid

Occupation

1. Authors.
2. Poets.

Research call number

1. Berg Coll 29967