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Bucolics (Auden)
''Bucolics'' is a sequence of poems by W. H. Auden written in 1952 and 1953. The seven poems in the sequence are: "Winds", "Woods, "Mountains", "Lakes", "Islands", "Plains", and "Streams". The sequence was first published in book form in Auden's book ''The Shield of Achilles'' (1955), together with a parallel sequence "Horae Canonicae ''Horae Canonicae'' is a series of poems by W. H. Auden written between 1949 and 1955. The title is a reference to the canonical hours of the Christian Church, as are the titles of the seven poems constituting the series: "Prime", "Terce", "Sext" ...."Bloomfield, B. C., and Edward Mendelson (1972). ''W. H. Auden: A Bibliography 1924–1969''. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, University Press of Virginia. . References {{poetry-stub Poetry by W. H. Auden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1952 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * August 12 — Night of the Murdered Poets, the execution of thirteen Soviet Jews in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, Soviet Union, including several poets. * November — The Group British poetry movement of the 1950s and 1960s begins at Downing College, University of Cambridge: Philip Hobsbaum along with two friends – Tony Davis and Neil Morris – dissatisfied with the way poetry has been read aloud in the university, decides to place a notice in the undergraduate newspaper '' Varsity'' for people interested in forming a poetry discussion group. Five others, including Peter Redgrove, come along to the first meeting. The group meets once a week during term; it moves to London in 1955. * E. E. Cummings is appointed to a Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard. * ''Contact'', a mimeographed poetry magazine, founded by Ramond Souster (c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * T. S. Eliot founds the Poetry Book Society in the U.K. * George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen and Harold L. Humes found ''The Paris Review''. * ''Nuovi Argomenti'', an influential Italian literary magazine, founded by Alberto Carrocci and Alberto Moravia in Rome. * The October issue of ''Atlantic Monthly'' magazine in the United States publishes "Perspectives of India", anthologizing poems from India. * November 5 – Dylan Thomas, on a poetry reading tour of the United States, is admitted to Saint Vincent's hospital in Manhattan in a coma from which he does not recover before his death on November 9. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Canada * Robert Finch, ''A Century has Roots''.Robert Finch" Online Guide t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shield Of Achilles
''The Shield of Achilles'' is a poem by W. H. Auden first published in 1952, and the title work of a collection of poems by Auden, published in 1955. It is Auden's response to the detailed description, or ''ekphrasis'', of the Shield of Achilles, shield borne by the hero Achilles in Homer's epic poem the ''Iliad''. Description Auden's poem is written in two different stanza forms, one form with shorter lines, the other with longer lines. The stanzas with shorter lines describe the making of the shield by the god Hephaestus, and report the scenes that Achilles' mother, the Nereid Thetis, expects to find on the shield and which Hephaestus, in Auden's version, does not make. Thetis expects to find scenes of happiness and peace like those described by Homer. The stanzas with longer lines describe the scenes of a barren and impersonal modern world that Hephaestus creates in Auden's version. In the first scene described by these stanzas, an anonymous, dispassionate army listens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horae Canonicae
''Horae Canonicae'' is a series of poems by W. H. Auden written between 1949 and 1955. The title is a reference to the canonical hours of the Christian Church, as are the titles of the seven poems constituting the series: "Prime", "Terce", "Sext", "Nones", "Vespers", "Compline", and "Lauds". Each refers to a fixed time of the day for prayer. The canonical hours create a framework for the dramatization of Auden's religious position, which he described in a letter as "very much the same as Reinhold eibuhrs, i.e. Augustinian, not Thomist (I would allow a little more place, perhaps, for the '' Via Negativa''.) Liturgically, I am Anglo-Catholic...". "Prime" and "Nones" were first published in Auden's collection ''Nones'' (1951). ''Horae Canonicae'' was published as a unity in Auden's ''The Shield of Achilles'' (1955). See also *Diurnal offices In the practice of Christianity, canonical hours mark the divisions of the day in terms of fixed times of prayer at regular interv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
