The first part of the #HenzeDigital #digitaledition is now online. 👏
@AMP_OeAW is especially looking forward to #HansWernerHenze's correspondence w/ #WHAuden & #ChesterKallman related to their close collaboration in the 1950s-60s, during Auden's Austrian period.
#AustrianAuden
https://fedihum.org/@riedde/111002370662563208
https://henze-digital.zenmem.de/de/Index

As part of my exploration of mid-century literature I have been reading W. H. Auden and I am struggling to pull anything substantial out of it. I appreciate the language and the imagery it evokes, but it seems, to me, to be too surrealistic to communicate any particular theme or even emotion. Is this a known characteristic of his early work? I’m reading him in chronological order.

I feel like I’m missing a key to how to read Auden before I can understand what he is trying to communicate. Do I need to be reading him while drunk or high? It’s like someone rapidly switch channels on a TV. A series of evocative images but seemingly unrelated to each other. I get strong TS Eliot vibes but without the culture references as guideposts.

Any suggestions?

#literature #whauden #poetry #literary #TSEliot

Musical Interlude: I love this song; the balance between humor and a surreal bewilderment captures the realities of my own love life. And the pedigree is remarkable.

"Tell Me the Truth About Love," lyrics by W. H. Auden, music by Benjamin Britten, performed by Jocelyn Freeman.

#MusicalInterlude #Love #Truth #WHAuden #BenjaminBritten #CabaretSongs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOFdkLZT2Ns

According to the #TEI Guidelines, the <address> element cannot contain <unclear>. 🙄
If #WHAuden had known, he would surely have made an effort when jotting addresses down on his envelopes.
#AudenMusulinPapers #AustrianAuden @teiconsortium @stefandumont @type @cfritze

Sinead O’Connor Danced on the Edge of the Dark All Her Life

Auden wrote of Yeats, “Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.” Cruel Ireland hurt Ms. O’Connor into song. She called Ireland a theocracy. She was furious that in a country that had supposedly fought for and won its freedom, women and children were so silenced and disempowered. She understood and had experienced pain, neglect and injustice and sang for those who also knew these things.

#WHAuden #Sinead #Yeats #islam

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/opinion/sinead-oconnor-meaning-death-ireland.html

Releasing v0.4.0 of the Auden Musulin Papers #DigitalEdition.
👉 https://amp.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/cv.html features our collaboration with #tuwien's #ComputerVisionLab to retrieve (partly unknown) poetry by #WHAuden from indented impressions.
#AustrianAuden #DH #DigitalHumanities #ComputerVision #PhotometricStereo @fwf @ACDHCH_OeAW

And there it was, at the bottom of the box. #WHAuden's first letter to #StellaMusulin from 1959. And so much more.
Back at the archives - here at #ArchivDerZeitgenossen and #UniKrems.
#AustrianAuden #DigitalEdition @ACDHCH_OeAW @fwf

Releasing v0.3.0 of the Auden Musulin Papers #DigitalEdition featuring:
📷 previously unpublished photos of #WHAuden in Austria
🔧 fixes of TEI/XML markup
🖥️ all new organization of documents on UI
#DH #DigitalHumanities @ACDHCH_OeAW @fwf

#whauden

“Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: As much neurosis as the child can bear.”

—W.H. Auden

#poetry #whauden #creativity

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics

Igor Stravinsky, W. H. Auden, Chester Kallman, Sir John Eliot Gardiner & London Symphony Orchestra:
🎵 The Rake's Progress (Act 2): Baba the Turk 'As I was saying... Scorned! Abused!'

#IgorStravinsky #WHAuden #ChesterKallman

#StellaMusulin writes that #WHAuden served "on the staff of a Middle Western college".
Can we safely assume this must (exclusively) refer to his teaching at #UniversityofMichigan? Did he teach at another academic institution in the Midwest (beyond individual lectures)? Did we miss something? 👀 https://twitter.com/UMich/status/855451063863853058

On the International Women's Day 2023, the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur (the hub of #WHAuden's literary network during his Austrian period 1958-73) is located at Frauengasse 5 (instead of Herrengasse 5). #EmbraceEquity #WienerLinien #AustrianAuden

🔥 The W. H. Auden Society Newsletter 41 is out - presenting some of @AMP_OeAW 's fresh research on #WHAuden and #ChesterKallman's purchase of their Austrian house & on a previously unnoticed publication of Auden's poem "Joseph Weinheber". #AustrianAuden @ACDHCH_OeAW @fwf

Posts about J.K. Rowling reminded me of this #WHAuden poem. (And an article about Woody Allen too but I can't find it)

> Time that is intolerant
Of the brave and innocent,
And indifferent in a week
To a beautiful physique,

> Worships language and forgives
Everyone by whom it lives,
Pardons cowardice, conceit,
Lays its honors at their feet.

> Time that with this strange excuse
Pardoned #Kipling and his views,
And will pardon Paul Claudel,
Pardons him for writing well.
https://newrepublic.com/article/165810/wh-auden-memory-wb-yeats

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast

Benjamin Britten, W. H. Auden, Simon Russell Beale, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group & Martyn Brabbins:
🎵 Night mail

#BenjaminBritten #WHAuden #SimonRussellBeale #BirminghamContemporaryMusicGroup #MartynBrabbins

Poet W. H. Auden was born this day in 1907. #birthday #quote #poets #whauden

Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of #light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of #Eros and of #dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming #flame.

116 years of #WHAuden.

📷 Jen Harris

#poet #poetry #writer #author #Auden #birthday #otd #photography #portrait

Do you remember this magical moment in Four Weddings and a Funeral? Happy birthday WH Auden - but don't stop the clocks just yet! @JohnHannah #film #movies #poetry #whauden #birthday
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https://albiscotti.substack.com/p/happy-birthday-wh?sd=pf

British-American poet #WHAuden was born #OTD in 1907. 🎂 On the occasion of his 60th birthday, Kirchstetten renamed the lane leading to his house Audenstraße. However, Auden continued to use the address "Hinterholz 6" on his stationary (allegedly arguing that streets should only be named after dead people). #AustrianAuden @ACDHCH_OeAW @fwf