The Cambridge Companion to W. H

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INDEX

Auden’s works are subdivided below into Poetry (volumes and individual poems), Plays (includ- ing libretti, radio and ﬁlm scripts) and Prose (volumes, essays, chapters). The latter includes prose passages from ‘mixed’ volumes of verse and prose, where such extracts have individual titles and are discussed separately in the text, and anthologies edited by Auden, whether of prose or verse. Poetry and prose collections and critical and biographical sources are indexed only when they are discussed in their own right, but not when identifying references. Where there are alternative titles both are indicated. The poet himself is not indexed.

Abyssinia 28, 157 Ashbery, John 4, 22, 227, 230 Ackerley, J. R. 178 Some Trees 230 My Father and Myself 178 Asperger’s Syndome 16 Adams, Anna Atwell, Mabel Lucie 135 A Reply to Intercepted Mail 236 Auden, Bernard xiv Adams, Henry 45 Auden, Constance Rosalie (nee)´ Bicknell xiv, Aeschylus 85 16, 154 Agape 18, 31, 32, 33, 37, 113, 157, Auden, George Augustus xiv–xv, 4, 16 175 Auden, John xiv, 17 Aguledo, Juan Sebastian and Murguıa,´ Auden Society Newsletter 234, 246 Guillermo Aguledo 214 Auden, W. H.: poetry The Sentient Universe 214 About the House (book) xix, 23, 64, 66, ‘Auden’s Question, Gould’s 222 Answer’ 214 Academic Grafﬁti xxi, 104 Allison, Drummond 230 ‘Address to the Beasts’ 223–4 Amis, Kingsley ‘Adolescence’ 203 ‘Socialism and the Intellectuals’ 231–2 ‘After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Amundsen, Roald 88 Physics’ 214 Anderson, Hedli 131 The Age of Anxiety , xix, 5, 7, 10, 21, Andreirsson, Kristian 74–5 46–7, 49–50, 88, 94, 112, 128, 133, 134, Anglo-German Naval Agreement 28 146, 206, 207, 235 Anselm, St 189 ‘The Aliens’ 66 Ansen, Alan 50 ‘Amor Loci’ 65, 211 The Table Talk of W. H. Auden 241 Another Time xvii, xviii, 6, 9, 44, 133, Aquinas, St Thomas 148 134 Archer, William 84 ‘Anthem for St Cecilia’s Day’ 134, 207 ‘Arden, W. H.’ xiv ‘Archaeology’ 67, 193, 195, 211 Arendt, Hannah 22, 50 ‘The Art of Healing’ 221 Armitage, Simon 4 ‘A shilling life’ (‘Who’s Who’) 128 Arnold, Matthew 113 As I Walked Out One Evening 13

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Auden, W. H.: poetry (cont.) ‘Dichtung und Wahrheit’ 63, 112 ‘As I walked out one evening’ 101, 131 ‘Dirge’ 49 ‘Atlantis’ 37, 149, 211 ‘Doom is dark and deeper than any sea ‘At the far end of the enormous room’ 184 dingle’ (‘The Wanderer’) 145–6, 202 ‘At the Grave of Henry James’ 132 The Double Man (New Year Letter) xix, ‘Aubade’ 67 2–3, 7, 9, 20, 25, 37, 98, 113, 121, 128, ‘Auden and MacNeice: Their Last Will 133, 134–5, 138, 152, 153, 162, 189–90, and Testament’ 18, 72, 76, 130 191–2, 206, 207, 210, 213, 218, 231 ‘August 1968’ 23, 60, 65 ‘Dover’ 70, 205 ‘Before this loved one’ (‘This Loved One’) ‘Easily, my dear, easily you move’ (‘A Bride 70, 181 in the Thirties’) xvi, 10, 70, 106, 159, ‘Bestiaries Are Out’ 221 184, 205 ‘The Bonfires’ (‘Look there! The sunk road ‘Easy Knowledge’ 211 winding’) 182 ‘Encomium Balnae’ 108 ‘A Bride in the Thirties’ (‘Easily, my dear, Epistle to a Godson (book) xxi, 66, 222 easily you move’) xvi, 10, 70, 106, 159, ‘Epistle to a Godson’ (poem) 108 184, 205 ‘Epithalamium’ 99 ‘Brussels in Winter’ 42 ‘Et in Arcadia Ego’ 64, 220–1 ‘Bucolics’ 13, 22, 58, 59, 97, 99, 208, ‘The Fall of Rome’ 21, 131, 132 209–10, 219 ‘Family Ghosts’ 202 ‘The Capital’ 42 ‘Far from the heart of culture he was ‘The Cave of Making’ 115, 136, 211 used’ 78 ‘The Cave of Nakedness’ 210 ‘Feed the brute with eggs and fruit’ 131 ‘Certainly our city’ 170 ‘First Things First’ 108 ‘Certainly Praise’ 205 ‘Fish in the unruffled lakes’ 131, 149 ‘A Change of Air’ 63 ‘Fleeing the short-haired mad ‘Chilled by the Present’ 206 executives’ 128 City Without Walls (book) xxi, 65–6, For the Time Being (book) xix, 133 233 ‘For the Time Being’ (poem) 5, 7, 21, 46, ‘City Without Walls’ (poem) 132, 211 47, 48, 94, 112, 133, 134, 206 Collected Longer Poems xxi ‘Forty Years On’ 107 Collected Poems (1950) 125 ‘Friday’s Child’ 62, 125 Collected Poems (1976) 125, 228, 235 ‘From scars where kestrels hover’ 182, 201 Collected Poetry (1945) xix, 117, 163, ‘From the very first coming down’ (‘The 230 Letter’) 201 Collected Shorter Poems 1939–1944 xix, ‘The Geography of the House’ 64, 108–9, 85 210 Collected Shorter Poems 1927–1957 xxi, ‘Get there if you can’ 13, 100–1, 156, 169 2, 52 ‘“Gold in the North” came the blizzard to ‘Commentary’ 42, 79 say’ 131 ‘The Common Life’ 64, 211 ‘Goodbye to the Mezzogiorno’ 23, 61, ‘A Communist to Others’ 2, 32, 34, 36, 208 100, 130, 152 ‘Grub First, Then Ethics’ (‘On Installing ‘Compline’ 58, 198–9 an American Kitchen in Lower ‘Consider this and in our time’ 4, 156, 201 Austria’) 23, 63, 64, 210 ‘Control of the passes was, he saw, the key’ ‘A Happy New Year’ 41, 100, 129–30 (‘The Secret Agent’) 16, 124, 181, 202 ‘Have a Good Time’ (‘ “We have brought ‘Dame Kind’ 63, 98, 149, 219–20 you”, they said, “a map of the ‘Dear to me now and longer than a country” ’) 204 summer’ 184 ‘Heavy Date’ 47, 108, 149 ‘Dedication’ (‘We Too Had Known Golden ‘Here on the cropped grass’ 37 Hours’) 2, 55, 185 ‘Here war is simple like a monument’ 4, ‘Deftly, admiral, cast your fly’ 130 79, 160, 190

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‘Herman Melville’ 134 ‘Look, Stranger!’ (‘On This Island’) ‘The Hidden Law’ 215–16, 220 (poem) 4, 130, 142–3, 145, 159–60, Homage to Clio (book) xx, 62 205 ‘Homage to Clio’ (poem) 62 ‘Look there! The sunk road winding’ (‘The ‘Hongkong’ 79 Bonfires’) 182 ‘Horae Canonicae’ 4, 8, 10, 22, 58–9, ‘Love by ambition’ (‘Too Dear, Too 193–9 Vague’) 126 ‘A Household’ 21, 116 ‘Lullaby’ (‘Lay your sleeping head, my ‘Hunting Season’ 217 love’) 2, 6, 102, 130, 184 ‘I have a handsome profile’ 25–6, 32, 33 ‘A Lullaby’ 24 ‘In Memory of Ernst Toller’ ‘The Managers’ 51 ‘In Memory of Sigmund Freud’ 43, 46, ‘Marginalia’ 65 165, 173 ‘Master and Boatswain’ (‘At Dirty Dick’s ‘In Memory of W. B. Yeats’ 4, 16, 36, 40, and Sloppy Joe’s’) 133 42–3, 52, 97, 132, 139, 188, 213 ‘May’ (‘May with its light behaving’) ‘In Praise of Limestone’ 21–2, 25, 56–7, 131 59, 98, 138, 144, 149, 163, 185, 208, ‘Memorial for the City’ 19, 56, 208 216–17 ‘Miss Gee’ 101–2, 131 ‘In Sunshine and in Shade’ 98 ‘Mountains’ 210 ‘In the Year of My Youth’ 113 ‘Mundus et Infans’ 216 ‘In Transit’ 52, 209 ‘Musee´ des Beaux Arts’ 19, 194, 196, 205, ‘In Time of War’ 19, 36, 76, 78, 160, 190 209, 210 ‘Ischia’ 21, 43, 59, 209 ‘Music is International’ 43 ‘Islands’ 210 ‘Natural Linguistics’ 66 ‘It’s no use raising a shout’ 171 ‘A New Year Greeting’ , 12, 66 ‘It was Easter as I walked in the public New Year Letter (The Double Man) gardens’ (‘1929’) xv, xvi, 155, 180–1, (book) xix, 2–3, 7, 9, 20, 25, 37, 98, 212, 214–15 113, 121, 128, 133, 134–5, 138, 152, ‘James Honeyman’ 101 153, 162, 189–90, 191–2, 206, 207, ‘Joseph Weinheber’ 62 210, 213, 218, 231 Journey to a War xviii, 9, 11, 13, 19, 68, ‘New Year Letter’ (poem) 20, 44–6, 47, 76, 134, 160, 190, 204 50 ‘Journey to Iceland’ 72, 204 ‘Night Mail’ xvii, 70 Juvenilia: Poems 1922–1928 124, 240 ‘1929’ (‘It was Easter as I walked in the ‘Lady Weeping at the Crossroads’ 149 public gardens’) xv, xvi, 155, 180–1, ‘Lakes’ 98, 210 212, 214–15 ‘Lauds’ 58 ‘No Change of Place’ (‘Who will endure’) ‘Law Like Love’ 134 70, 202 ‘Lay your sleeping head, my love’ ‘Nocturne’ 67 (‘Lullaby’) 2, 6, 102, 130 ‘Nocturne i’ 60 ‘Leap Before You Look’ 192–3 Nones (book) xx, 4, 10, 55–8 ‘The Letter’ (‘From the very first coming ‘Nones’ (poem) 58, 193, 195, 197, 199 down’) 201 ‘No, Plato, No’ 8 ‘Letter to Lord Byron’ 8, 12, 72, 73, 75, ‘Now from my window sill’ 25, 203 96, 103–6, 108, 119, 133, 153, 172, 173, ‘Now the leaves are falling fast’ 102 179–80, 236 ‘Now through night’s caressing grip’ Letters from Iceland xvii, 12, 18–19, 68, 131 69, 71–6, 103, 118, 130 ‘Ode to Gaea’ 98, 208, 209, 211, 217–19, ‘Let the florid music praise’ 130 222 ‘Like a Vocation’ 47 ‘Ode to Terminus’ 13, 99–100, 188, ‘London to Hongkong’ 76 217 Look, Stranger! (On This Island) (book) ‘O, Love, the interest itself in thoughtless xvii, 4, 13, 41, 96, 133, 157 Heaven’ (‘Prologue’) 126, 205

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Auden, W. H.: poetry (cont.) ‘The Secret Agent’ (‘Control of the passes ‘O what is that sound that so thrills the was, he saw, the key’) 16, 124, 181, 202 ear’ 157 ‘September 1,1939’ 1, 14, 20, 23, 43, 44, ‘On Installing an American Kitchen in 55, 65, 102, 121, 132, 134, 161, 162 Lower Austria’ (‘Grub First, Then ‘The Seven Stages’ 146 Ethics’) 23, 63 ‘Sext’ 196 ‘On the Circuit’ 64 The Shield of Achilles (book) xx, 4, 10, 55, ‘On the frontier at dawn getting down’ 12 58, 60, 97–8 On This Island (Look, Stranger!) (book) ‘The Shield of Achilles’ (poem) 22, 59–60, xvii, 4, 13, 41, 96, 133, 157 98, 146, 162–3, 208 ‘On This Island’ (‘Look, stranger!’) (poem) ‘Short Ode to the Cuckoo’ 221–2 4, 130, 142–3, 145 ‘Since’ 65 The Orators: An English Study xvi, 4, 9, ‘Since you are going to begin today’ 17–18, 27–8, 31–2, 102, 112, 118, 124, (‘Venus Will Now Say a Few Words’) 127–8, 130, 133, 149, 165, 170, 172, 146, 149, 202, 215 179, 182–3, 203, 206 ‘Sir, no man’s enemy’ (‘Petition’) 4, 128, ‘Orpheus’ 151 144, 156, 157, 158 ‘Our Bias’ 217 ‘The soldier loves his rifle’ 108 Our Hunting Fathers (song cycle) 131 ‘Some say that love’s a little boy’ 108 ‘Our Hunting Fathers’ (poem) 215 Spain xvii, 2, 6, 13, 19, 34, 36, 55, 65, 102, ‘Out on the lawn I lie in bed’ (‘A Summer 132, 144, 150, 159, 170 Night’) 18, 31, 32–3, 70, 113, 157–9, ‘Spain 1937’ xvii, 148 163 ‘The Sphinx’ 41, 42 ‘Paid on Both Sides’ xvi, 5, 82, 84, 85, 94, ‘Stop all the clocks’ (‘Funeral Blues’) 131 106, 127, 154, 181, 182 ‘Streams’ 97, 209, 210 ‘Partition’ 23, 65 ‘A Summer Night’ (‘Out on the lawn I lie ‘Paysage Moralise’´ 200, 204, 210, 212 in bed’) 18, 31, 32–3, 70, 113, 157–9, ‘Petition’ (‘Sir, no man’s enemy’) 4, 128, 163 144, 156, 157, 158 ‘Symmetries & Asymmetries’ 64 ‘Plains’ 97, 210 ‘Talking to Dogs’ 66, 222, 223, 224 ‘The Platonic Blow’ 22 ‘Talking to Mice’ 66, 222, 223 ‘Pleasure Island’ 21, 51 ‘Talking to Myself’ 66, 222, 223 Poems (1928)xv ‘Taller Today’ 201 Poems (1930) xvi, 2, 3, 17, 96, 103, 124, Tell Me the Truth about Love 13, 235 127, 155, 156, 228 ‘Terce’ 58, 193, 196–7 ‘The Price’ 205 ‘A Thanksgiving’ 152 ‘Prime’ 43, 56, 58, 193, 194–6, 197 ‘Thanksgiving for a Habitat’ 13, 23, 64, ‘Profile’ 65 107, 210 ‘Prologue’ (‘O Love the interest itself in Thank You, Fog (book) xxi, 67, 223 thoughtless heaven’) 126, 205 ‘Thank You, Fog’ (poem) 24 ‘Prologue at Sixty’ 8, 13, 65, 217, 233 ‘The earth turns over’ 184 ‘Prologue: The Birth of Architecture’ 64 ‘The friends of the born nurse’ 124 ‘The Prophets’ 47 ‘The fruit in which your parents hid you, ‘The Quest’ 20 boy’ 128 ‘The Questioner Who Sits So Sly’ 214 ‘Their Lonely Betters’ 57–8 ‘Reflections in a Forest’ 220 ‘There Will Be No Peace’ 22, 61, 65 ‘Refugee Blues’ 102 ‘This Loved One’ (‘Before this loved one’) ‘The Riddle’ 206 70, 181 ‘River Profile’ 65, 211 ‘To Ask the Hard Question’ 202 ‘Rois Faineants’´ 23, 65 ‘A Toast’ 112 ‘Roman Wall Blues’ 102 ‘Tonight at Seven Thirty’ 132 ‘The Sea and the Mirror’ 5, 7, 21, 46, 47, ‘Too Dear, Too Vague’ (‘Love by 48, 50, 112, 128, 132, 133–4, 207 ambition’) 126

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‘The Traction Engine’ 16 The Enemies of a Bishop 166 ‘ “The Truest Poetry is the Most Hadrian’s Wall (radio script) 91 Feigning” ’ 10, 11, 97, 100, 125, 132, Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings 177 1939–1973 241 ‘Uncle Henry’ 124 The Londoners (filmscript) 91 ‘Underneath the abject willow’ 131 The Magic Flute (libretto) 92, 94 ‘Under Sirius’ 132 Negroes (God’s Chillun)(filmscript) 91 ‘Under Which Lyre’ 51, 106–7, 135 Night Mail (film script) 18, 91, 103 ‘The Unknown Citizen’ 43, 44 On the Frontier xviii, 5, 12, 18, 71, 111, ‘Venus Will Now Say a Few Words’ (‘Since 129 you are going to begin today’) 146, 149, Paul Bunyan (libretto), xix, 5, 43, 48, 92, 202, 215 131 ‘Vespers’ 59, 112 Plays and Other Dramatic Writings ‘Victor’ 101, 131 1928–1938 241 ‘Voltaire at Ferney’ 134 The Rake’s Progress (libretto) xx, 20, 47, ‘A Walk After Dark’ 51, 52, 56 93–4, 131 ‘The Wanderer’ (‘Doom is dark and deeper Sherlock Holmes Chez Duhamel xvi than any sea dingle’) 145–6, 202 Auden, W. H.: prose ‘Wandering lost upon the mountains of ‘Address for a Prize-Day’ 27 our choice’ 190 ‘As it Seemed to Us’ 112 ‘The Watershed’ (‘Who stands, the crux ‘Caliban to the Audience’ 133 left of the watershed’) 16, 26, 124, 149, A Certain World xxi, 4, 16, 23, 110, 115, 182, 201 118, 121–2, 193, 241 ‘The Way’ 185, 206 ‘Concerning the Unpredictable’ 109 ‘ “We have brought you”, they said, “a The Dyer’s Hand (book) xx, 22, 110, 111, map of the country” ’ (‘Have a Good 116, 118, 119–20, 138, 241 Time’) 204 The Enchafed` Flood xix, 116, 118–19, ‘We Too Had Known Golden Hours’ 140, 147, 241 (‘Dedication’) 2, 55 ‘England: Six Unexpected Days’ 111 ‘Which Side Am I Supposed To Be On?’ 9, The Faber Book of Aphorisms (ed.) 203 (anthology) 125, 131 ‘Whitsunday in Kirchstetten’ 8 The Faber Book of Modern American ‘Who stands, the crux left of the Verse (ed.) (anthology) 8 watershed’ (‘The Watershed’) 16, 26, Forewords and Afterwords xxi, 110, 112, 124, 149, 182, 201 118, 241 ‘Who’s Who’ (‘A shilling life’) 128 ‘For Tourists’ 73 ‘Who will endure’ (‘No Change of Place’) ‘The Good Life’ 166, 171, 183, 189, 190 70, 202 ‘The Guilty Vicarage’ 120 ‘Winds’ 210 ‘Honour’ (‘The Liberal Fascist’) xiv, 12, ‘The Witnesses’ 131, 149 182 ‘Woods’ 210 ‘In Defence of Gossip’ 114 ‘Yes, we are going to suffer, now’ 79, 190 ‘In Search of Dracula’ xvii ‘You’ 64, 66 ‘Jehovah Housman and Satan Auden, W. H.: plays, etc. Housman’ 116 The Ascent of F6 xvii, 5, 10, 18, 28–30, Journal (unpublished) 180–1 31, 33, 70–1, 87–9, 90, 91, 129 ‘Journal of an Airman’ 127, 138, 182–3, The Bassarids (libretto) xxi, 20, 92, 94 203, 230 Coal Face (filmscript) 91 Lectures on Shakespeare (ed. Kirsch) The Dance of Death xvi, 5, 91, 106, 129 240 The Dog Beneath the Skin xvii, 5, 18, 71, ‘Letter to Kristian Andreirsson’ 72, 74 86–7, 90, 94, 113, 128, 129, 203 ‘Letter to a Wound’ 127, 203 Elegy for Young Lovers (libretto) xx, 20, ‘The Liberal Fascist’ (‘Honour’) xiv, 12, 131 182

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Auden, W. H.: prose (cont.) Bate, Jonathan ‘Life’s Old Boy’ 222 The Song of the Earth 213 ‘Making, Knowing, and Judging’ 61, 120 Battle of Maldon 85 ‘Morality in an Age of Change’ 222 Baudelaire, Charles 113, 140 ‘Papa Was a Wise Old Sly-Boots’ 178 Beach, Joseph Warren Poems of Freedom (ed.) (anthology) 100 The Making of the Auden Canon 132, ‘The Poet and the City’ 188, 191 242 ‘Poetry, Poets, and Taste’ 104–5 Beardsley, Monroe 140 The Poet’s Tongue (ed.) (anthology) 1, 97, Beaton, Cecil 228 101, 117, 131, 141 Belloc, Hilaire 135 The Prolific and the Devourer 20, 113, Cautionary Tales 135 118, 120, 121 Bennett, Alan Prose and Travel Books in Prose and The Old Country 236 Verse: Vol. i 1926–1938 110, 241 Bennington College xix Prose: Vol. ii 1939–1949 110, 241 Benson, Frederick R. ‘The Protestant Mystics’ 31, 113 Writers in Arms 243 ‘Psychology and Art To-day’ 12, 117, 138, Beowulf 9 166, 183 Bergonzi, Bernard 227 ‘The Public v. the Late Mr William Butler Berkeley, Bishop George 45 Yeats’ 36–7, 121, 139 Bernstein, Leonard 5 ‘Reading’ 119 Berryman, John 230 Secondary Worlds xxi, 3, 4, 110, 118, 122, ‘Winter Landscape’ 230 185, 241 ‘World Telegram’ 230 ‘Shakespeare’s Sonnets’ 177–9 Betjeman, John 16, 72, 102, 117, 232 ‘Tradition and Value’ 45 ‘Big Rock Candy Mountain, The’ 101 ‘Un Homme d’Esprit’ 188 Bishop, Elizabeth 230 Viking Portable Poets of the English Blake, Nicholas (C. Day-Lewis) 236 Language (ed.) (anthology) 11, 131 A Question of Proof 236 ‘The Virgin & the Dynamo’ 184 Blake, William 27, 113, 130, 154, 169, 180, ‘Writing’ 119 189, 203 Augustine of Hippo, St 8, 47, 108, 148, 185, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 180 190, 201 Bloom, Harold 242 ‘Authors Takes Sides on the Spanish Civil Bloomfield, B. C. 240 War’ 34 W. H. Auden: A Bibliography,1924–1969 Ayerst, David 153 (with Edward Mendelson) 240 Ayres, Pam 13 Blum, Leon´ 157 Bogan, Louise 48, 112 Bach, J. S. 92 ‘To Wystan Auden on his Birthday’ (with St Matthew Passion 92 Edmund Wilson) 236 Baden-Powell, Lord Robert 130 Bogdanov, Michael 92 Badger, The xvii Bold, Alan 242 Bahlke, George 242 Boly, John 242 Baker, Kenneth 2 Bonhoeffer, Dietrich 62, 126 I Have No Gun But I Can Spit 2 Boswell, James 155 Baldwin, Stanley 28 The Fall of London 156 Bardot, Brigitte 92 Boucher, François 92 Barker, George 123 Bowles, Paul 20 Barlach, Ernst 85 Bowles, Sally 84 Der Findling 85 Bozorth, Richard 10–11 Barnard College xix Auden’s Games of Knowledge 243 Barthes, Roland Bramall, Eric 228 Camera Lucida 228 Brecht, Bertolt 4, 43, 64, 84, 85–6, 147–51, Barzun, Jacques 22 152

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The Threepenny Opera 84 Carpenter, Humphrey 4, 34, 37, 153–4, 189, The Duchess of Malﬁ (adaptation) 84 190, 200, 233 The Caucasian Chalk Circle 84 W. H. Auden: A Biography 242 The Seven Deadly Sins 84 Carroll, Lewis 106, 116, 119 The Rise and Fall of the City of Carter, Ronald Mahagonny 84, 85–6 The Thirties Poets: ‘The Auden Group’ Mother Courage 149 242 Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable 107 Caudwell, Christopher 5, 34, 157, 170 British Broadcasting Corporation ‘Freud: A Study in Bourgeois Psychology’ ‘Auden in London’ 233–4 170 Britten, Benjamin xix, 18, 20, 91, 131, 236 Illusion and Reality 5, 34 Brodsky, Joseph 228 Causley, Charles Bronte,¨ Emily 85 ‘Letter from Jericho’ 236 Wuthering Heights 85 Cezanne,´ Paul 200 Brooke, Rupert 27 Chamberlain, Neville xviii, 41, 89, 157 Brooks, Cleanth 140 Chaplin, Charles 106 Brown, Christy Chesterton, G. K. 78 ‘W. H. Auden’ 237 Christ Church, Oxford xv, xxi, 16, 66 Browne, Alistair Christianity and the Social Revolution ‘Psychology and Marxism’ 170 (ed. John Lewis) 216 Browning, Robert 133 Churchill, Winston S. 130 ‘Caliban upon Setebos’ 133 Clark, Thekla 22, 50 The Ring and the Book 133 Wystan and Chester 242 Bruegel, Pieter 194, 200, 205 Claudel, Paul 139 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 194, 205 Clifton, Violet 113 The Massacre of the Innocents 205 The Book of Talbot 113, 122 The Numbering at Bethlehem 205 Clinton, President Bill 1 Bryant, Marsha 72, 243 Cochrane, Charles Norris 111 Bryn Mawr College xix Christianity and Classical Culture 111 Buber, Martin 8, 57 Coghill, Nevill xv Bucknell, Katherine Coldstream, William 72, 75 (ed.) W. H. Auden: Juvenilia 124, 240 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 11, 140, 145 Buell, Lawrence ‘The Ancient Mariner’ 140, 145 Writing for an Endangered World 213 Biographia Literaria 11 Burgess, Guy xx, 22 ‘Dejection: An Ode’ 11 Burns, Robert 101, 157, 158 Columbia University, New York xix Bush, President George 235 Communist Manifesto 104, 157 Bush, President George W. 163 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) Byron, George Gordon, Lord 9, 72, 73, 92, 34, 152, 157 96, 103–5, 153, 173 Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 2, Don Juan 72, 103–5, 133 13 Congress of Vienna 98 Caesar, Adrian 227, 243 Connolly, Cyril 6, 46, 178, 230 Callan, Edward 99 Enemies of Promise 6 A Carnival of Intellect 99 Conquest, Robert 231 Callow, Simon 235 Constantinism 51 Cameron, Norman 154 Cornelia Street,7, Greenwich Village 21 Cammaerts, Emile 51 Cornford, John 34 The Flower of Grass 51 Coue,´ Emile 17 Capote, Truman 226 Craig, Gordon 83 Capra, Frank 146 Creeley, Robert 234 Careme,ˆ Antonin 98 Criterion, The xvi, 113, 114, 115 Cross, Amanda 236

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Poetic Justice 236 Edward VIII xvii, 29–30, 171 Crossman, R. H. S. 72 Ehrenpreis, Irvin 9 Cunningham, Valentine 71 Eighth Route Army 77 Czar Alexander I 98 Eiseley, Loren 125 Eliot, T. S. xv, xvi, 2, 3, 4, 13, 16, 17, 23, 26, Dadaism 106 27, 31, 40, 45, 48, 57, 58, 82, 83, 85, Daiches, David 114, 115, 128, 140, 141, 175, 179, 196, Introductions to English Literature 229 201, 207, 241 Daily Express xv Ash Wednesday 220 Dante Alighieri 87, 117, 125, 175, 178 Burnt Norton 31 Vita Nuova 178 Four Quartets 207, 220 Darwin, Charles 201 Murder in the Cathedral 82, 83 Daumier, Honore´ 200 Sweeney Agonistes 82, 85 Davenport-Hines, Richard 33 The Elder Statesman 82 Auden 242 The Family Reunion 85 Davidson, Michael 227 ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ 115 The World, The Flesh and Myself 227 The Waste Land xv, 3, 16, 26, 27 Davie, Donald 9, 97, 99 ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ 115, Day Lewis, Cecil xv, xx, 16, 36, 114, 123, 141 227, 236 Emerson, Ralph Waldo 45 The Magnetic Mountain 36 ‘Each and All’ 45 Deane, Patrick 9 ‘The Problem’ 45 de la Mare, Walter 117 Emig, Rainer 242 Delius, Frederick 83 Empson, William 231 Derrida, Jacques 137 Engels, Friedrich 11 de Tocqueville, Alexis 45–6, 49 Erikson, Erik 12 Democracy in America 45–6 Young Man Luther 12 Dickinson, Emily 126, 176 Euripides Dietrich, Marlene 84 Bacchae 20, 92 Dodd, Philip 68 Everett, Barbara Dodds, E. R. 52, 120, 241 Auden 242 Dodson, Owen 50 Ewart, Gavin 237 Don Quixote 119, 122, 147 ‘The Short Blake-Style Gnomic Doone, Rupert xvi, 18 Epigram’ 237 Downs School, Malvern xvi, xvii, 17, 18, 31 Expressionism 84 Driberg, Tom xv Dryden, John 105 Faber and Faber xvi, 17, 123, 124, 235 Duchene,ˆ Franc¸ois Farnan, Dorothy The Case of the Helmeted Airman 242 Auden in Love 242 Duffy, Carol Ann Feuchtwanger, Leon 84 ‘Alphabet for Auden’ 236 Firbank, Ronald 106 Duncan, Robert 230 Fire Island 21 Durer,¨ Albrecht 200, 207 Fitzgerald, Robert 43 Durrell, Lawrence 230 Flanagan, Hallie 82 Flecker, James Elroy 83 Eagleton, Terry 98–9, 242 Hassan 83 Easthope, Antony 159 Fleming, Peter 77 Eberhart, Richard 45 Fokine, Michel 83 Ecclesiastes 162 Ford Foundation 23 ecocriticism 213–14 Forster, E. M. 88, 157, 158, 160–2, 175–6, Ecocriticism Reader, The 213 185 ecriture´ feminine´ 213 A Passage to India 160, 176 Education Today – and Tomorrow 12 A Room with a View 160

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Howard’s End 160 Grant, David Maurice 176 Letter to W. H. Auden 236 ‘Two Cheers for Democracy’ 161–2 Graves, Robert 16, 126, 152, 231 ‘What I Believe’ 161–2 Greacen, Robert Where Angels Fear to Tread 160 ‘Auden’ 236 Foucault, Michel 138 Greenberg, Herbert Four Weddings and a Funeral 1, 131, 235 Quest for the Necessary 242 Fox, Ralph 35 ‘Green Grow the Rushes O’ 101 The Novel and the People 35 Gresham’s School, Holt xiv, 16 Foxall, Vince 236 Grierson, John xvii, 91 Francis of Assisi, St 223, 224 Griffin 22 Franco, Generalissimo Francisco xvii, 153, Griffin, Howard 157 Conversations with Auden 241 Freud, Sigmund xiv, 12, 17, 20, 33, 35–6, 88, Grigson, Geoffrey 5, 96, 97, 123, 131, 227, 108, 127, 137, 162, 165, 169–70, 172, 231 173, 175, 180, 181, 182, 189, Poetry of the Present 231 229 ‘To Wystan Auden,1967’ 236 Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Groddeck, Georg 108, 125, 156, 165, 166, Ego 182 168–9, 170, 172, 175 Frost, Robert 4, 40, 152, 212 The Unknown Self 168–9 Frye, Northrop 147 Groote, Kurt xv, 180 Fuller, John 126, 155, 160, 161–2, 192, 194, Grosz, Georg 102 199, 203 Group Theatre xvii, xviii, 4, 18, 82, 88, 90, A Reader’s Guide to W. H. Auden 241 129, 133 W. H. Auden: A Commentary 126, 241 Guinness, Alec 88, 90 Fuller, Roy 227, 230, 231, 233 ‘Visiting the Great’ 236 Haeckel, Ernst 213 Fussell, Paul 69 Haffenden, John 241 Halifax, George, Earl of 131 Garland, Peggy 159 Hamilton, Ian 233 Garrett, John 117, 131 The Review 233 Gascoyne, David 172 Hammarskjold,¨ Dag 64 Gate Theatre 84 Hammond, Andrew 68–9 General Strike xv, 153 Hardy, Thomas 16, 26, 111, 124, 129, 146, Genesis 196 152, 201 Gentile da Fabriano 207 ‘Christmas 1924’ 129 George V xvii The Dynasts 201 George VI xvii, 172 The Return of the Native 112 Gide, Andre´ 180, 181 Harper’s Bazaar 20 Si le grain ne meurt 181 Harper’s Magazine 120 Ginsberg, Allen 232 Harrod, Roy xv Godfrey, Paul Hartley, Anthony 231 Once in a While the Odd Thing Happens Harwood, Lee 233 235 Hayden, Robert 50 Godfrey, Peter 84 Hayward, John 3 Goering, Herman 75 Heaney, Seamus 228 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 8, 10, 11, 45, Heard, Gerald 12, 17 63, 127, 208 Heath Anthology of American Faust 11 Literature 229 Good Soldier Schweik, The (film) 84 Hecht, Anthony 197–8, 215, 230, 235, 242 Gould, Stephen Jay 214 The Hidden Law 242 GPO Film Unit xvii, 91, 103, 172 Hegel, Friedrich 45 Gramsci, Antonio 138 Heidegger, Martin 138, 222

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Helensburgh and Gareloch Times xvi Jaffe, Rhoda xix, 21, 49, 50 Hemingway, Ernest 49 Jakobson, Roman 137 Hendon, Paul 242 James, Clive Henze, Hans Werner xx, xxi, 20, 92–3 ‘What Happened to Auden’ 236 The Bassarids xxi, 20, 92, 94 James, Henry 114–15, 133 Elegy for Young Lovers xx, 20, 131 The Spoils of Poynton 115 Moralities 131 Jameson, Fredric 138 Hewison, Robert Jarrell, Randall 7, 241 In Anger: Culture in the Cold War Jenkins, Nicholas 6, 10 1945–60 231 Jennings, Elizabeth Highway, The 104–5 ‘Elegy for W. H. Auden’ 236 Hirschfeld, Magnus 12, 127 Jennings, Humphrey 172 Hitler, Adolf xvi, xviii, xx, 13, 29, 52, 61, 76, Jeremiah 132 89–90, 102, 106, 152, 163, 190 John Henry ballads 101 Mein Kampf 29 Johnson, Lyndon 23, 235 Hoare-Laval Pact 28 Johnson, Paul 232 Hobson, Harold 5, 106 Johnson, Richard Hockney, David 94 Man’s Place 242 Hogarth, William 93, 94 Johnson, Samuel 146 Hoggart, Richard Johnson, Wendell Stacey 22 Auden: An Introductory Essay 241 Johnstone, Richard 77 Holderlin,¨ Friedrich 140 Jones, David 29 Hollander, John 228 Anathemata 29 ‘Holmes, Sherlock’ 31 Jones, Ernest 229 Homo Ludens 10, 97, 135, 210 Joyce, James 100, 115 Hood, Thomas 101 Finnegans Wake 115 Hopkins, G. M. 32, 116 Ulysses 11 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) 208, 217 Jung, Carl Gustav 146–7 Horizon 229 Juvenal 132 Horovitz, Michael 232 Housman, A. E. 206 Kafka, Franz 101 Howard, Brian 200 Kallman, Chester xviii, xx, xxi, 5, 19–20, 21, ‘Hugerl’ xx 23, 47, 49, 50, 61, 64, 92, 93, 179, Hughes, Ted 232 192–3, 241, 242 The Hawk in the Rain 232 Kant, Immanuel 100, 138 Huxley, Aldous 71 Kavanagh, Patrick 227 Huxley, Thomas 201 Keats, John 129 Hynes, Samuel 71, 154, 226, 227 Hyperion 129 The Auden Generation: Literature and Kellett, Richard 234 Politics in England in the 1930s 243 Kennedy, President John F. xx Kermode, Frank 25 Ibsen, Henrik 83, 89 Kerr, Douglas 78–9 Peer Gynt 89, 122 Khrushchev, Nikita xx, xxi Innes, Christopher 5 Kierkegaard, Søren 8, 10, 20, 55, 57, 62, Ischia xix, 21, 22, 59 189, 190–1, 192, 198, 206 Isherwood, Christopher xiv, xvii–xviii, 4, 8, Kilby, Michael 155 13, 16, 18, 19, 28, 39, 41, 47, 72, 73, Kinsella, Thomas 76–9, 84, 85–6, 102, 111, 134, 154, 160, ‘Dedication’ 237 175, 178, 180, 181, 236, 241 Kipling, Rudyard 78, 139, 160 Christopher and his Kind 175 ‘Recessional’ 160 Goodbye to Berlin 84 Kirchstetten xx, xxi, 23, 61, 62 Lions and Shadows 180 Kirsch, Edward 240 Institut fur¨ Sexual-Wissenschaft 12 Kirstein, Lincoln 9, 50, 200

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Siegfriedslage 236 McCullers, Carson 20 Kohler, Wolfgang 17 McDiarmid, Hugh 226 Kristeva,´ Julia 220 McDiarmid, Lucy Kronenberger, Louis 131 Auden’s Apologies for Poetry 243 Saving Civilisation 243 Lacan, Jacques 12, 137, 220 MacDonald, Ramsay xvi, 28 Lane, Homer 17, 20, 101, 125, 156, 165, McElwee, Bill xv 166–8, 169, 172, 179–80 McKusick, James C. Talks to Parents and Teachers 165 Green Writing 213 Langland, William 100, 113 MacLeish, Archibald 123 Language Poetry 126 MacNeice, Louis xv, xvii, 18, 20, 33, 69, 71, Larchfield School xvi, 17 72, 73, 76, 82, 90, 103, 133, 134, 136, Larkin, Philip 7, 98, 111, 112, 132, 153, 231 154, 229, 241 ‘What’s Become of Wystan?’ 7, 231 ‘Eclogue from Iceland’ 72 la Rochefoucauld, François de 131 ‘Epilogue’ 72, 76 Lautner, Alfred 233 Modern Poetry 103 Lawrence, D. H. 45, 50, 71, 84, 114, 116, Madge, Charles 123, 156, 171–2, 227 117, 169, 175, 179–80, 189, 203 ‘Press, Radio and Social Consciousness’ Studies in Classic American Literature 45, 172 50 Malinowski, Bronislaw 149, 172 Women in Love 203 Mallarme,´ Stephane´ 140 Lawrence, T. E. 88, 113, 203 Manicheism 132 Layard, John xvi, 12, 17, 33, 34, 35, 125, ‘Man of La Mancha’ 82 156, 165, 179, 180, 182–3 Mann, Erika xvii, 20, 76 ‘The Flying Tricksters of Malekula’ 165, Mann, Golo 20, 40 182 Mann, Klaus 84 League of Nations 28 Mann, Thomas xvii, 112 Lear, Edward 106, 116, 117, 119, 234 Mao Tse Tung xix Leavis, F. R. 9, 22, 35, 96, 127, 128, 231, Marshall, Margaret 17 241 Marx, Groucho 106 Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture 35 Marx, Karl 20, 35–6, 45, 106, 129, 137, 138, New Bearings in English Poetry 231 147–51, 152, 157, 162, 189 Lee, Gipsy Rose 20 Das Kapital 157 Left Review 34, 35 Marxism 147–51, 152, 157 Lehmann, John 229 Masefield, John 83 Lenin, Vladimir Ulyich 215 Mass Observation 171–2 Levi-Strauss,´ Claude 138 Maxwell, Glyn 232 Lewis, C. S. 152 Mayakovsky, Vladimir 102 Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph 131 Medley, Robert xiv, 18 Liddell Hart, B. H. 113 Melville, Herman 119, 134, 140 Listener, The 114, 161 Mendelson, Edward xxi, 14, 26, 36, 110, Litt, Toby 235 125, 155, 157, 169, 179, 184, 203, 219, Logue, Christopher 232 227, 235, 240, 241 Longley, Edna 71 Complete Works of W. H. Auden 110, 112, Lovelock, James E. 217 240 Lowell, Robert 113–14, 196 Early Auden 241 ‘Life Studies’ 196 Later Auden 241 Lucas, John 7, 243 Mendelssohn, Felix 106 Lucie-Smith, Edward Meredith, William British Poetry since 1945 229 ‘Talking Back’ 236 Luther, Martin 97 Merrill, James 230 Merwin, W. S. 230 Macbeth, George 233 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer xviii

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Meyer, Gerhart xv, 180 New Signatures 241 Michigan University, Ann Arbor xix New Verse 5, 8, 34, 97, 123, 156, 227, 228 Mid-Century Society 22 New Yorker 7, 43, 102 Middagh Street,7 (Brooklyn Heights) 20, New York Times 1 236 Nicolson, Harold 96 Miles, Barry 232 Niebuhr, Reinhold xviii, 8, 20, 55, 62, 125, Mill, John Stuart 45 190 Miller, Charles An Interpretation of Christian Ethics 190 Auden: An American Friendship 242 Niebuhr, Ursula xviii, 55, 111 Milton, John 100, 131, 197–8 Nietzsche, Friedrich 189 ‘Avenge, O lord, thy slaughtered saints’ Noonan, Peggy 235 100 Norse, Harold 234 Paradise Lost 46, 98, 100, 133, 197–8 Norton Anthology of American Mitchell, Donald Literature 229 Britten and Auden in the 1930s 243 Norton Anthology of English Literature 229 Mitchison, Naomi 3, 33, 228 Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg) 66 Outline for Boys and Girls and Their Parents 33 Oates, Laurence 88 Modern Canterbury Pilgrims 190–1, 198 O’Hara, Frank 163, 230 Monet, Claude 205 ‘Memorial Day 1950’ 163 Montaigne, Michel de 162 ‘Oh, Mister Porter’ 100 Moore, Marianne 22, 43, 48, 57, 230 Old Vic Theatre 89 Moraes, Dom 4 Olivet College, Michigan xix Morris, William 72 Olson, Charles 134 Morrison, Robert 213 Maximus Poems 133 Mosley, Sir Oswald xvi, 76 O’Neill, Eugene 84 Mottram, Eric Origen 47 ‘The British Poetry Revival,1960–75’ 233 Orwell, George 6, 74, 159 Mount Holyoke College xix ‘Inside the Whale’ 6, 159 Mozart, W. A. 92, 94 The Road to Wigan Pier 74 Don Giovanni 94 Osborne, Charles 233 The Magic Flute 92, 94 W. H. Auden: The Life of a Poet 242 Muir, Edwin 123, 227 Oxford Book of Light Verse 101, 116, 119, Muldoon, Paul 4 131 ‘7, Middagh Street’ 236 Oxford Poetry xv, 9, 114 Mussolini, Benito 29, 157 Oxford Professorship of Poetry xx, 22, 60, 63 Nabokov, Nicholas xxi Love’s Labours Lost xxi Page, Norman Nash, Ogden 43 Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years ‘Spring Comes to Murray Hill’ 43 1961 Nation, The 222 Page-Barbour lectures xix, 118 National Government 28 Partisan Review 36 Nature 115 Pascal, Blaise 101 Nazi–Soviet Pact xviii Paul, St 51 Neue Sachlichkeit 84 Paulin, Tom 69, 153 New Apocalypse 230 Pears, Peter 20 New Country 123, 227, 241 Penn Warren, Robert 141 New Criticism 4, 137, 140–3 Perugino, Pietro 207 New Lines 231 Petrarch, Francesco 175 Newman, Cardinal John Henry 101 Petzold, Frau Hedwig xv, 17 New Measures 232 Picasso, Pablo 200 New School for Social Research xviii Piero di Cosimo 200, 204, 207, 209

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The Early History of Man 209 Conflict and Dream 165 Piper, John 156 Instinct and the Unconscious 17 Pisanello (Antonio Pisano) 207 Rochester, Earl of (John Wilmot) 130 Piscator, Erwin 84 Rodin, Auguste 108 Plato 64, 101, 175, 178 Rodway, Allan 10 Symposium Preface to Auden 242 Plomer, William 7 Roger, Peter xvi Plumb, Charles xv Roosevelt, President Franklin Delano xix Poe, Edgar Allan 112, 198 Rosenstock-Huessy, Eugen 17, 125, 211 ‘Eureka’ 112 ‘Rosie the Riveter’ 49 Pol Pot 163 Rossini, Gioacchino 98 Pope, Alexander 96, 103, 111, 113, Rouse, Anna 116 ‘Memo to Auden’ 236 Potter, Beatrix 106, 123, 223 Pound, Ezra 13, 29, 57, 103, 128, 129, 133, Sacks, Oliver 125 234 Salvator Rosa 200 Cantos 129, 133 Sandburg, Carl 230 Jefferson and/or Mussolini 29 Sansom, Peter 235 Poussin, Nicolas 200, 209 Sartre, Jean Paul 11 Praed, Winthrop Mackworth 98 Saussure, Ferdinand de 137 Proust, Marcel 181 Scarfe, Francis, Auden and After 241 ‘Pylon Poets’ 6, 15, 123 Schuyler, James 230 ‘Wystan Auden’ 236 Quayle, Dan 1 Scientific American 66, 115 queer theory 176 Scott, Captain Robert Falcon 88 Quennell, Peter 96 Scrutiny 22, 114, 118, 222 Byron in Italy 96 Second International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture 35, 36 Random House 76, 123 Sedbergh School 32 Ransom, John Crowe 141 Shakespeare, William 5, 11, 21, 65, 92, 106, Rattigan, Terence 88 119, 133, 175, 176, 177–9, 184, Ross 88 227 Raworth, Tom 232 Henry IV, Part II 107 Read, Herbert 123 Othello 119 Reeves, Gareth 4 Sonnet cii 111 Reinhardt, Max 84 The Tempest 5, 21, 133 Replogle, Justin The Winter’s Tale 107 Auden’s Poetry 242 Shapiro, Karl 230 Reynolds, David 51 ‘W. H. A.’ 236 Rich, Adrienne 22, 230 Shaw, Bernard 83, 84 Richards, I. A. 34–5, 115 Shelley, Percy Bysshe 100, 139, 140, Practical Criticism 34 213 Principles of Literary Criticism 34 Shepard, Graham and Anne 72, 73 Richardson, Sheilah 17 Sherriff, R. C. 84, 89 Rickword, Edgell 155, 157 Journey’s End 84, 89 ‘The Happy New Year’ 155 Shklovsky, Viktor 148 Invocations to Angels and the Happy New Simpson, Wallis 29–30 Year 155 Sinfield, Alan 177 Riding, Laura xv, 40, 48, 126 Sitwell, Edith xv, 130 Ridler, Anne 230 Sitwell, Osbert 230 Rilke, Rainer Maria 135 Skelton, Robin 25 Rimbaud, Arthur 3 Smedley, Agnes 77 Rivers, W. H. R. 17, 165 Smith College xx

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Smith, Stan 30, 68, 69, 99, 152, 155, 159, Becket 83 162, 191–2 ‘Locksley Hall’ 101 W. H. Auden (Rereading Thomas, Dylan 3, 90, 123, 227 Literature series) 99, 242 Under Milk Wood 90 W. H. Auden (British Council Writers and Thomas, Edward 16, 27, 124, 152 Their Work series) 242 Thoreau, Henry David 213, 214 Spanish Civil War xvii, 13, 19, 34 Tillich, Paul 20 Spears, Monroe K. Time 23 The Disenchanted Island 242 Times, The 234 Auden: A Collection of Critical Times Literary Supplement, The 1 Essays 242 Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) 200, 205, 209 Spectator, The 7, 231 The Three Ages of Man 205 Spencer, Bernard 227 Todd, Ruthven 230 Spencer, Theodore 48 Tolkien, J. R. R. 62 Spender, Philip xxi, 108 Toller, Ernst 84, 169, 170–1 Spender, Stephen xiv, xv, 2, 3, 6–7, 13, 16, Tolley, A T. 82, 89, 119, 124, 125, 232, 236, 241 The Poetry of the Forties 230 The Temple 236 Townsend Warner, Sylvia 154–5 W. H. Auden: A Tribute xvii, 242 Lolly Willowes 154–5 World Within World 6 Transport Users’ Consultative Committee for Spengler, Oswald 127, 131 Western England 235 Spinoza, Baruch 149 Trilling, Lionel 22 Spufford, Francis ‘Truly Strong, The’ 180 ‘A Letter to Wystan Auden, from Iceland’ Turnell, Martin 6 236 Twickenham Baptist Gang 101, 166 St Edmund’s Preparatory School xiv St Marks Place,77 (Greenwich Village) xx Ubu Roi 129 Stalin, Joseph xviii, xx, 3, 147, 152, 163 Unicorn Tapestries 207 Stein, Gertrude xv, 114, 175–6 Unity Theatre 4 Ida 114 University of Virginia xix Steiner, Rudolf 214 Upward, Edward 34, 121 Stern, James 112 USAF Strategic Bombing Survey xix, 56 Stevens, Wallace 112, 116, 234 Stonewall Riots 175, 185 Valetti, Rosa 84 Stravinsky, Igor xx, 20, 47, 92, 93–4, 127, Grossenwahn¨ 84 241 van der Lubbe, Marinus 106 The Rake’s Progress xx, 20, 47, 93–4 Van Noy, Rick 214 Strindberg, August 84 Verlaine, Paul 2–3 Sunday Times 232, 233 ‘Art poetique’´ Surrealism 172 Verne, Jules 77, 116, 119 Swarthmore College xix Vidal, Gore 230 Symons, Julian 230 Virgil (Publius Virgilius Maro) 27, 39, 40, 52 The Thirties: A Dream Revolved Aeneid 39 243 Eclogues 27, 39 Szladits, Lola 234 Georgics 39 Vogue 111 Tablet, The 6, 98 Voltaire 113 Talleyrand, C. M. de 98 Tate, Allen 141 Wagner, Richard 98 Tawney, R. H. 153 Wain, John 7, 231 Taylor, A. J. P. 154 Mixed Feelings 231 Tennyson, Alfred Lord 83, 101, 112, 113, Walcott, Derek 4 116, 130, 135, 139 ‘Eulogy to W. H. Auden’ 236

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Walpole, Sir Hugh 123 Williams, William Carlos 112, 118, 133 Warner, Frances 27 Paterson 133 Warner, John 27–8, 30 Wilson, Edmund 22, 123–4, 130, 230 Warner, Rex 27 ‘The Omelette of A. MacLeish’ 123 Watson, George ‘To Wystan Auden on his Birthday’ (with British Literature Since 1945 229 Louise Bogan) 236 Waugh, Evelyn 8, 69, 77, 112, 153 Wimsatt, William 140 Autobiography Windsor, Albert Edward Christian George Wedekind, Frank 84 Andrew Patrick David of (see Edward Elf Scharfrichter 84 VIII) 29–30 Weill, Kurt 84, 85–6 Wittgenstein, Ludwig 97 The Threepenny Opera 84 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 97 The Rise and Fall of the City of Woods, Gregory 10 Mahagonny 85–6 Woolf, Leonard 8, 112 Wells, H. G. Woolf, Virginia xv Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind Wordsworth, William 16, 59, 105, 111, 119, 213 140 West, Alick 35 The Prelude 119 Crisis and Criticism 35 Workers’ Educational Association 104 Whitman, Walt 7, 43, 185 Wyndham Lewis, Percy 29, 35, 76, 102–3, Wiggins, Maurice 232 123, 130 ‘And Did You Once See Auden Plain?’ 232 Blasting and Bombardiering 102–3 Wilbur, Richard 154, 230 Hitler 29 ‘For W. H. Auden’ 237 Wilde, Oscar 131, 176, 178, 185 Yale Series of Younger Poets 22, 113, 230 ‘Portrait of Mr. W. H.’ 178 Yates, Michael xvi–xvii, 18, 50 ‘William Hickey’ (Tom Driberg) xv Yeats, W. B. 2, 3, 4, 8, 13, 16, 36–7, 39, 40, Williams, Charles xvii, 8, 47, 125, 152 58, 63, 83, 97, 117, 121, 124, 152, 161, The Descent of the Dove 47 163 Williams, Keith ‘Easter 1916’ 36 British Writers and the Media,1930–1945 ‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’ 161 243 ‘The Phases of the Moon’ 58 Williams, Raymond 138 ‘Young Fellow Called Dave, The’ 98 Williams, Tennessee 230 Youngs, Tim 13

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