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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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