W. H. Auden1907–1973- The Dyer’s Hand, and Other Essays (1962), “Hic et Ille”
- A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970), “Friday, Good”
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.Another Time (1940)- Forewords and Afterwords (1973), “Concerning the Unpredictable”
- Homage to Clio (1960), “First Things First”, st. 5
Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.
The Dyer’s Hand, and Other Essays (1962), “D. H. Lawrence”Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our own table.Another Time (1940), “People and Places”, XIII: “Herman Melville”To save your world you asked this man to die;
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?“Epitaph for the Unknown Soldier” (October 1953)All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.
A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970), “Hell”- The Dyer’s Hand, and Other Essays (1962), “Reading”
- The Dyer’s Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
To us he is no more a person
Now but a whole climate of opinion.“In Memory of Sigmund Freud”, Another Time (1940)- Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
- The Dyer’s Hand, and Other Essays (1962), “Hic et Ille”
When a just man dies,
Lamentation and praise,
Sorrow and joy, are one.“Elegy for J.F.K.” (22 November 1963)
