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Author : Dorothy Jeanne Farnan
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0452007720
An intimate portrayal of the Auden-Kallman circle profiles the enduring relationship between the two men and portrays the brilliant literary milieu that revolved about them.
Author : Wystan Hugh Auden,Chester Kallman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003423220
W. H. Auden called opera the "last refuge of the High Style," and considered it the one art in which the grand manner survived the ironic levelings of modernity. He began writing libretti soon after he arrived in America in 1939 and abandoned his earlier attempts to write public, political drama. Opera gave him the opportunity to rise to the high style in public, not in an attempt to elevate his own status as a poet, but in service of the heroic voice of the singers. These works present their mythical actions with a direct intensity unlike anything in even his greatest poems. In this volume of Auden and Chester Kallman's libretti, extensive historical and textual notes trace the history of the production and revision of the works and provide full texts of early scenarios, as well as abandoned and rewritten scenes. Almost all the works included here were previously published in incomplete and often inaccessible editions--or were never published at all. The book prints for the first time the full text of Paul Bunyan, Auden's first libretto, which he wrote for music by Benjamin Britten. It also includes Auden and Kallman's The Rake's Progress, written for Igor Stravinsky, and Delia, written for Stravinsky but never set to music. The book continues with Auden and Kallman's two libretti written for music by Hans Werner Henze, Elegy for Young Lovers and The Bassarids, and their adaptation of Love's Labour's Lost, composed by Nicolas Nabokov. It also contains their translation of The Magic Flute, with its scenes reordered for greater dramatic coherence and added dialogue for sharper mythical significance, and their antimasque, The Entertainment of the Senses, for music by John Gardner. The book contains two radio plays--The Dark Valley, a monologue written by Auden alone, and The Rocking Horse Winner, written with James Stern and based on a story by D. H. Lawrence. Also included are the unpublished masque that Auden wrote for Kallman's twenty-second birthday, the unpublished versions of The Dutchess of Malfi that Auden prepared with Bertolt Brecht, scenarios for a film script and a libretto that were never completed, Auden's narrative for the medieval Play of Daniel, two narratives for documentary films, and his song lyrics written for Man of La Mancha before the producer decided to use a different lyricist.
Author : Thekla Clark
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0231107072
Clark's story is generously sprinkled with glimpses of Auden's eccentricities. She recollects his fascination with female anatomy and with the process of birth; his unusual mix of moral seriousness and intellectual frivolity; his love for church ritual and his conviction that homosexuality was wrong.
Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : American prose literature
ISBN : 9780691164588
Author : Thekla Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0231107072
Clark's story is generously sprinkled with glimpses of Auden's eccentricities. She recollects his fascination with female anatomy and with the process of birth; his unusual mix of moral seriousness and intellectual frivolity; his love for church ritual and his conviction that homosexuality was wrong.
Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : American prose literature
ISBN : 0691033013
Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : M. Evans
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : UCSC:32106012185374
An intimate, engaging biography of the great English poet (1907-1973), originally published in 1979 (London: M. O'Mara Books). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : American prose literature
ISBN : 9780691151717
Author : W. H. Auden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0691068046
Author : David Garrett Izzo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015055860707
Author : Alan Bold,Alan Norman Bold
Publisher : Rl Innactive Titles
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015024862396
In this collection the poet and critic Alan Bold introduces various views of Auden: William Logan writes on Auden's imagery; Janet Montefiore on Auden and traditional fairytale material; Margaret Moan Rowe on Auden as playwright; Donald Pearce on Auden at Michigan; Walter Perrie on Auden's political vision; A. S. Crehan on Auden's prose; Richard Johnson on Auden's love poetry; Charles Osborne on Auden as Christian poet; and Robert Giddings on Auden and opera.
Author : Peter Edgerly Firchow
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0874137667
This book is not a "survey" or a guide to all or even most of Auden's poetry, though it does follow the general outlines of Auden's development as a poet and thinker."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Mason Currey
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781524732967
More of Mason Currey's irresistible Daily Rituals, this time exploring the daily obstacles and rituals of women who are artists--painters, composers, sculptors, scientists, filmmakers, and performers. We see how these brilliant minds get to work, the choices they have to make: rebuffing convention, stealing (or secreting away) time from the pull of husbands, wives, children, obligations, in order to create their creations. From those who are the masters of their craft (Eudora Welty, Lynn Fontanne, Penelope Fitzgerald, Marie Curie) to those who were recognized in a burst of acclaim (Lorraine Hansberry, Zadie Smith) . . . from Clara Schumann and Shirley Jackson, carving out small amounts of time from family life, to Isadora Duncan and Agnes Martin, rejecting the demands of domesticity, Currey shows us the large and small (and abiding) choices these women made--and continue to make--for their art: Isak Dinesen, "I promised the Devil my soul, and in return he promised me that everything I was going to experience would be turned into tales," Dinesen subsisting on oysters and Champagne but also amphetamines, which gave her the overdrive she required . . . And the rituals (daily and otherwise) that guide these artists: Isabel Allende starting a new book only on January 8th . . . Hilary Mantel taking a shower to combat writers' block ("I am the cleanest person I know") . . . Tallulah Bankhead coping with her three phobias (hating to go to bed, hating to get up, and hating to be alone), which, could she "mute them," would make her life "as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water" . . . Lillian Hellman chain-smoking three packs of cigarettes and drinking twenty cups of coffee a day--and, after milking the cow and cleaning the barn, writing out of "elation, depression, hope" ("That is the exact order. Hope sets in toward nightfall. That's when you tell yourself that you're going to be better the next time, so help you God.") . . . Diane Arbus, doing what "gnaws at" her . . . Colette, locked in her writing room by her first husband, Henry Gauthier-Villars (nom de plume: Willy) and not being "let out" until completing her daily quota (she wrote five pages a day and threw away the fifth). Colette later said, "A prison is one of the best workshops" . . . Jessye Norman disdaining routines or rituals of any kind, seeing them as "a crutch" . . . and Octavia Butler writing every day no matter what ("screw inspiration"). Germaine de Staël . . . Elizabeth Barrett Browning . . . George Eliot . . . Edith Wharton . . . Virginia Woolf . . . Edna Ferber . . . Doris Lessing . . . Pina Bausch . . . Frida Kahlo . . . Marguerite Duras . . . Helen Frankenthaler . . . Patti Smith, and 131 more--on their daily routines, superstitions, fears, eating (and drinking) habits, and other finely (and not so finely) calibrated rituals that help summon up willpower and self-discipline, keeping themselves afloat with optimism and fight, as they create (and avoid creating) their creations.
Author : Wendell Stacy Johnson
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : UCAL:B4973023
Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:87036616
