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Tables of Contents for The English Auden
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Preface
xiii
Part I
Paid on Both Sides
1
20
Part II: Poems 1927--1931
Bones wrenched, weak whimper, lids wrinkled
21
1
No trenchant parting this
21
1
Who stands, the crux left of the watershed
22
1
Suppose they met, the inevitable procedure
22
1
The crowing of the cock
23
1
Nor was that final, for about that time
24
1
From the very first coming down
25
1
Control of the passes was, he saw, the key
25
1
Taller to-day, we remember similar evenings
26
1
We made all possible preparations
26
1
Again in conversations
27
1
From scars where kestrels hover
28
1
Under boughs between
29
1
Love by ambition
30
1
Before this loved one
31
1
Watch any day his nonchalant pauses, see
31
1
The strings' excitement, the applauding drum
32
1
Upon this line between adventure
32
1
Sentries against inner and outer
33
1
On Sunday walks
33
1
The silly fool, the silly fool
34
1
Will you turn a deaf ear
35
1
Sir, no man's enemy, forgiving all
36
1
It was Easter as I walked in the public gardens
37
4
Which of you waking early
41
1
It's no use raising a shout
42
1
To have found a place for nowhere
43
1
Since you are going to begin to-day
44
1
Having abdicated with comparative ease
45
1
Consider this and in our time
46
2
Get there if you can and see
48
2
Pick a quarrel, go to war
50
2
This lunar beauty
52
1
Between attention and attention
52
1
Who will endure
53
1
To ask the hard question is simple
54
1
Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle
55
1
What's in your mind, my dove, my coney
56
1
Look there! The sunk road winding
56
17
Part III: The Orators
Prologue
61
1
The Initiates
Address for a Prize-Day
61
3
Argument
64
5
Statement
69
2
Letter to a Wound
71
2
Journal of an Airman
73
40
Six Odes
Watching in three planes
94
2
Walk on air do we? And how!
96
2
What siren zooming is sounding our coming
98
3
Roar Gloucestershire, do yourself proud
101
5
Though aware of our rank
106
3
Not, Father, further do prolong
109
4
Epilogue
110
3
Part IV: Poems 1931--1936
For what as easy
113
1
That night when joy began
113
1
Enter with him
114
1
Now from my window-sill I watch the night
115
1
The chimneys are smoking
116
2
O Love, the interest itself
118
2
The sun shines down on the ships at sea
120
1
Brothers, who when the sirens roar
120
3
I have a handsome profile
123
2
O what is that sound
125
1
The Witnesses
126
4
The month was April, the year
130
5
Hearing of harvests rotting in the valleys
135
1
Out on the lawn I lie in bed
136
2
What was the weather on Eternity's worst day?
138
3
Here on the cropped grass
141
3
The earth turns over
144
2
Turn not towards me lest I turn to you
146
5
On the provincial lawn I watch you play
146
1
At the far end of the enormous room
147
1
The latest ferrule now has tapped the curb
147
1
One absence closes other lives to him
147
1
The fruit in which your parents hid you, boy
148
1
Just as his dream foretold, he met them all
148
1
Fleeing the short-haired mad executives
149
1
To lie flat on the back with the knees flexed
149
1
Dear to me now and longer than a summer
149
1
A shilling life will give you all the facts
150
1
Love had him fast, but though he fought for breath
150
1
To settle in this village of the heart
151
1
Our hunting fathers told the story
151
1
May with its light behaving
152
1
Easily, my dear, you move, easily your head
152
2
O for doors to be open
154
1
August for the people and their favourite islands
155
2
Look, stranger, at this island now
157
1
The Creatures
158
1
Let the florid music praise
158
1
Now the leaves are falling fast
159
1
The soldier loves his rifle
159
1
Underneath the abject willow
160
1
Dear, though the night is gone
161
1
Night covers up the rigid land
162
1
Fish in the unruffled lakes
163
1
Stop all the clocks
163
1
As it is, plenty
163
1
Casino
164
1
Certainly our city
165
38
Part V
Letter to Lord Byron
169
34
Part VI: Poems 1936--1939
Journey to Iceland
203
1
Detective Story
204
1
O who can ever praise enough
205
1
`O who can ever gaze his fill'
205
2
Lay your sleeping head, my love
207
1
It's farewell to the drawing-room's civilised cry
208
1
Blues
209
1
Spain 1937
210
2
Orpheus
212
1
Johnny
213
1
Miss Gee
214
2
Schoolchildren
216
1
Wrapped in a yielding air
217
1
Victor
218
4
Dover
222
1
James Honeyman
223
4
As I walked out one evening
227
2
Oxford
229
1
Some say that Love's a little boy
230
1
The Voyage
231
1
The Sphinx
232
1
The Ship
232
1
Passenger Shanty
233
1
The Traveller
234
1
Macao
235
1
Hongkong
235
1
The Capital
235
1
Brussels in Winter
236
1
Gare du Midi
236
1
Musee des Besux Arts
237
1
Rimbaud
237
1
A. E. Housman
238
1
The Novelist
238
1
The Composer
239
1
Epitaph on a Tyrant
239
1
Edward Lear
239
1
Voltaire at Ferney
240
1
Matthew Arnold
241
1
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
241
2
Where do They come from?
243
2
September 1, 1939
245
28
Part VII
In Time of War
251
11
Commentary
262
11
Part VIII: Theatre, Film, Radio
Manifesto on the Theatre
273
24
Choruses and Songs
You who have come to watch us play
273
1
You who return to-night to a narrow bed
274
1
Alice is gone and I'm alone
275
1
You were a great Cunarder, I
275
1
Hail the strange electric writing
276
1
Seen when night was silent
277
1
Love, loath to enter
277
1
A beastly devil came last night
278
1
You with shooting-sticks
279
1
So, under the local images
280
1
The Summer holds
281
2
Happy the hare at morning
283
1
Now through night's caressing grip
283
1
The General Public has no notion
284
1
Evening. A slick and unctuous Time
285
1
The chimney sweepers
286
1
Death like his is right and splendid
286
1
Let the eye of the traveller
287
1
At last the secret is out
287
1
O quick and furtive is the lovers' night
288
1
Ben was a four foot seven Wop
288
1
The biscuits are hard and the beef is high
288
1
Roman Wall Blues
289
1
Three Fragments for Films
Coal Face
290
1
Night Mail
290
2
Negroes
292
5
Part IX: Essays And Reviews
Journal Entries
297
4
Review of Instinct and Intuition
301
2
G. B. Dibblee
Writing
303
9
Private Pleasure
312
2
Problems of Education
314
1
How to Be Masters of the Machine
315
2
Review of Culture and Environment
317
2
F. R. Leavis
Review of The Book of Talbot
319
1
Violet Clifton
Review of T.E. Lawrence
320
1
B. H. Liddell Hart
The Liberal Fascist
321
6
Introduction to The Poet's Tongue
327
3
The Bond and the Free
330
2
Psychology and Art To-day
332
10
The Good Life
342
12
Review of Documentary Film
354
2
Paul Rotha
Psychology and Criticism
356
2
Poetry, Poets, and Taste
358
2
Impressions of Valencia
360
1
Jehovah Housman and Satan Housman
361
2
Light Verse
363
5
The Sportsmen: A Parable
368
2
Introduction to Poems of Freedom
370
2
Essay from I Believe
372
8
Educational Theory
380
6
A Great Democrat
386
3
The Public v. the Late Mr. William Butler Yeats
389
5
The Prolific and the Devourer
394
15
Appendix I An Early Version of `Paid on Both Sides'
409
8
Appendix II Textual Notes
417
14
Appendix III The Contents of Auden's Books of Poems 1928--1940
431
5
Appendix IV Uncollected Poems 1924--1942
436
27
Index of Titles and First Lines
463