Because the original was an incredibly stupid line?
Mark
At 05:54 PM 11/2/2001 -0000, Robin Hamilton wrote:
>> Mark Weiss wrote:
>> >
>> > >Why would Auden make this change from an original magazine publication
>in
>> > >May, 1948? The words may have been risqué but are hardly extreme in
>the
>> > >sexual climate of America at that time.
>> > >
>> >
>> > You're talking about that other America, the one on Mars, right?
>> >
>> > Mark
>>
>>
>> Rolling on the floor here MArk, thankyou!
>
>OK, OK, already, Josie and everyone else who pulled me up on this.
>
>Obviously, I'm going to have to rethink and/or restate this. But two
>provisional points:
>
>Auden himself felt that the move to America in 1939 +did+ represent a
>movement to a (relatively) more liberal society. Obviously, "liberal"
>(here) +is+ relative ...
>
>The other is that (more on this later) of the major and obvious changes
>Auden makes, "Limestone" is one of the few to reflect what is apparently a
>sexual toning-down. Why (only?) here?
>
>Robin
>
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