That's great! I can't believe I have never heard of this guy.
TheOldMole <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Here's another thought about how Auden got to be what he was:
http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/17/richards17.html
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>I casn't resist any more. Auden felt the way he felt about the poem
>because of memories of my uncle...as demonstrated here.
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> In this fine poem.
>
> Incident on Fifty-second Street
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> "I sit in one of the dives
> On Fifty-second Street
> Uncertain and afraid."
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> It was Christmas Eve 1939
> W.H. Auden was waiting for a sign.
> "Been to China, Been to Spain.
> Lord, lord don't want to do it again.
> The Christmas star rages with its usual vengeance.
> Lord, lord give me a little transcendence."
>
> Lord, lord that's what he prayed
> At the end of a low, dishonest decade.
> Drinking alone. Then who comes in?
> My Uncle Joe. Auden buys him a gin.
> They fall in love. There is a back room!
> Boom a lay Boom a lay Boom a lay Boom!
> They went back to the bar and unless I miss my dates.
> Auden wrote "In Memory of W.B. Yeats."
> Showed it to Joe who kept on drinking.
> "I like this place" is what he was thinking.
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