About the House
Auden, W.H.75 USD
Date
1966
Category
Poetry
Description
First Edition. Published in the United Kingdom by Faber & Faber in 1966. The book is in two unnumbered parts, "Thanksgiving for a Habitat", a sequence of poems about the rooms in Auden's house in Kirchstetten, Austria, and a miscellaneous group of poems headed "In and Out", previously uncollected. Almost all of the poems were written between 1960 and 1964.
Excerpt
All the arts derive from
This ur-act of making,
Private to the artist:
Makers' lives are spent
Striving in their chosen
Medium to produce a
De-narcissus-ized en-
During excrement.
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