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Homage to Clio / by W. H. Auden.

Title
Homage to Clio / by W. H. Auden.
Author
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973
Publication
London : Faber and Faber, 1960.

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Description
91 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
Poems sepatated into two parts by an interlude in prose "Dichtung und Wahrheit". Also inculdes some "Academic graffiti", clerihews, limericks & a poem specially composed to celebrate the eightieth birthday of Dr. Claude Jenkins.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Poetry
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Part I -- Homage to Clio -- Reflections in a forest -- Hands -- The sabbath -- Merax and Mullin -- On installing an American kitchen in lower Austria -- Objects -- Words -- The song -- Makers of history -- T the Great -- Secondary epic -- The epigoni -- Parable -- The more loving one -- Interlude. Dichtung und Wahrheit -- Part II -- Dame kind -- First things first -- An island cemetery -- Bathtub thoughts -- The old man's road -- Walks -- The history of truth -- The history of science -- History of the boudoir -- Metalogue to the magic flute -- The aesthetic point of view -- Limbo culture -- There will be no peace -- Friday's child -- Good-bye to the Mezzogiorno -- Addendum. Academic graffiti.
LCCN
^^^78113683^//r82
OCLC
  • 1936876
  • SCSB-11454768
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library