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...Two years ago, the company installed a sculpture of a cable car at the top of one of its lifts, and it leaves copies of its call to climate action in every hotel room, said Auden Schendler, senior vice-president...
...A few years later, while studying at Oxford university, Motion bonded with a living poetic genius when he sat next to WH Auden at a dinner....
...Raymond Briggs: The Illustrators Series, by Nicolette Jones, Thames & Hudson, RRP£18.99, 112 pages “There are no good books which are only for children,” WH Auden said....
...This is high bohemia in charming squalor, with battered furniture, overflowing ashtrays and a watercolour by William Blake, a present from a patron, dangling above the mantelpiece....
...This artist, one of the show’s revelations, was born in Bristol as Marjorie Watson-Williams but assumed her more genderless moniker in 1928 after she moved to France....
...Taken at a Faber party in the late 1950s, it shows Eliot with his authors Louis MacNeice, Ted Hughes, WH Auden, and Stephen Spender — a fair assembly of 20th-century poetry superstars....
...A House in St John’s Wood: In Search of My Parents, by Matthew Spender, William Collins, RRP£25, 448 pages. Published in the US in October by Farrar, Straus and Giroux....
...His son, my uncle Richard, was also a successful artist and did portraits of people such as WH Auden and Edward R Murrow, and several of those have disappeared too....
...Either way, like Auden’s poem “Spain”, it evokes the grandeur of Spanish history as a backcloth to the 20th-century struggle....
...He blames the influence of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, and the example of Charles Olson who followed them....
...Auden set out to create during their wartime exile in the US barely qualifies as a school musical, so absent is its narrative, so shallow its characters, so inchoate its idea of the American Dream....
...W H Auden, the poet, said: “Routine, in an intelligent man, is the sign of ambition.” I am not sure I agree....
...“You’re moving a bit fast, William! I’ll go on the inside. You stay where you are … You’re getting a bit silly now.”...
...When, late in 1952, Britten’s name was put forward as music director of Covent Garden, Britain’s leading opera house, rival composer William Walton snorted: “There are enough buggers in the place already...
...There’s an unlikely visual connection, too, between Simon Liddiment’s “Parable” – a fan-like construction of rural road signs – and Teller’s billboard-size portrait of the photographer William Eggleston...
...Auden’s poems, so verbally acute, deserve more attention....
...WH Auden was an early, if qualified, admirer but not everyone has been so appreciative. Ashbery’s work is of formal brilliance, say his detractors, but of negligible import....
...by John Berryman while Auden contributes a review of the poetry of David Jones....
...His laconic recitation of Auden – “Like love we often weep/Like Love we seldom keep” – leaves you in no doubt how he has won the heart of some of the most beautiful women in the world....
...Were you at all close to William Butler Yeats?” It is regrettable that so complex a personality rarely recorded the inward turn of his thoughts....
...Auden wrote that there are many writers “whose works are in better taste than their lives”....
...As Auden says, in any crisis, the break-up of a relationship, the response is to flee to the arms of the muse....
...Auden as a “lonely old volcano” – would be tarnished by their anti-semitism and far-right sympathies....
...But class-ridden, ration-blighted Britain was not quite ready to take Stravinsky and Auden in its stride....
...Shades of Auden. But for me and Samantha this year will only ever mean one thing. When such a big part of your life suddenly ends nothing else – nothing outside – matters....
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