W. H. Auden, Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson
Auden’s favourite colour? Blue: the colour of “boys’ overalls” (1: 25). His favourite sight? The “bosom, backside, crotch” of a man on a beach mid-saunter, viewed from a supine position (2: 361). The Auden that emerges in Edward Mendelson’s majestic new Poems is profusely, volubly, magnificently qu...
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2024
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| Résumé: | Auden’s favourite colour? Blue: the colour of “boys’ overalls” (1: 25). His favourite sight? The “bosom, backside, crotch” of a man on a beach mid-saunter, viewed from a supine position (2: 361). The Auden that emerges in Edward Mendelson’s majestic new Poems is profusely, volubly, magnificently queer. He is even more so if we consider that, as Mendelson notes, “when Auden marked up friends’ copies of his early books with dates and places of composition, he often wrote in the initials of the... |
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