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  • Early in his education, Ashbery read poets such as W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and Wallace Stevens, but his first ambition was to become a painter, and from the ages of 11 to 15 he took weekly classes at the art museum in Rochester.

    John Ashbery greenintegerblog 2008

  • It was, however, Britten's Hymn to St. Cecilia conducted by the Chorale's Lesley Leighton, with a brilliantly erotic text by W. H. Auden and the choral magic of England's greatest composer since Purcell that stole a show already brimming over with wit and humor.

    Rodney Punt: Bridges to Somewhere: Master Chorale Embraces Worlds in Los Angeles Rodney Punt 2011

  • W. H. Auden, Czeslaw Milosz, Constantine Cavafy, and Pablo Neruda are some of my favorites.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • In the broad perspective, our Western way of thinking of ourselves as individuals “each in the cell of himself,” wrote W. H. Auden, is rather new and unusual.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • It was, however, Britten's Hymn to St. Cecilia conducted by the Chorale's Lesley Leighton, with a brilliantly erotic text by W. H. Auden and the choral magic of England's greatest composer since Purcell that stole a show already brimming over with wit and humor.

    Rodney Punt: Bridges to Somewhere: Master Chorale Embraces Worlds in Los Angeles Rodney Punt 2011

  • “Funeral Blues,” copyright 1940 and renewed 1968 by W. H. Auden, from Collected Poems of W. H. Auden by W. H. Auden.

    History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

  • “Funeral Blues,” copyright 1940 and renewed 1968 by W. H. Auden, from Collected Poems of W. H. Auden by W. H. Auden.

    History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

  • It was, however, Britten's Hymn to St. Cecilia conducted by the Chorale's Lesley Leighton, with a brilliantly erotic text by W. H. Auden and the choral magic of England's greatest composer since Purcell that stole a show already brimming over with wit and humor.

    Rodney Punt: Bridges to Somewhere: Master Chorale Embraces Worlds in Los Angeles Rodney Punt 2011

  • In the broad perspective, our Western way of thinking of ourselves as individuals “each in the cell of himself,” wrote W. H. Auden, is rather new and unusual.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • It was, however, Britten's Hymn to St. Cecilia conducted by the Chorale's Lesley Leighton, with a brilliantly erotic text by W. H. Auden and the choral magic of England's greatest composer since Purcell that stole a show already brimming over with wit and humor.

    Rodney Punt: Bridges to Somewhere: Master Chorale Embraces Worlds in Los Angeles Rodney Punt 2011

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