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W.H. Auden

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    Feb 20, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  1. Oh the nerdity

    The Baltimore Sun
    W.H. Auden trawled the Oxford English Dictionary for old and obscure words, some of which he employed in his poetry. He was so fond of the OED that he often took a volume of it to bed at night. We here in Wordville understand that. Thus there is joy...

    Tags: University of Oxford, Literature

    2. Mar 18, 2009 |Blog| Baltimore Sun

  2. Say cheese

    Dining@Large
    In today's guest post, our Shallow Thought Wednesday guru, John Lindner, examines a not-so-shallow question concerning the complexities of love, and quotes my favorite poet to boot. At least I think he's my favorite poet. EL......

    Tags: Cheddar Cheese, Cheese

    3. Mar 30, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. An Appreciation: Richard Griffiths' outstretched hand

    Richard Griffiths was an actor of enormous size. He was physically big — obese to the point of sometimes needing a cane to get around. But his mind and soul were equally large, and his eloquence was so prodigious that playwright Alan Bennett found in him an ideal interpreter of his magnificently articulate art.
    Richard Griffiths was an actor of enormous size. He was physically big — obese to the point of sometimes needing a cane to get around. But his mind and soul were equally large, and his eloquence was so prodigious that playwright Alan Bennett found...

    Tags: Entertainment Events, Tony Awards, Daniel Radcliffe, Richard Griffiths, Celebrities

    4. Mar 15, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. Review: 'The Book of My Lives' by Aleksandar Hemon

    Aleksandar Hemon, the 48-year-old Bosnian refugee who has become one of this city's literary rock stars, can amuse and he can devastate. That he does both in his second language, wielded with precision and elegance, has earned him comparisons to Nabokov and Joseph Conrad.
    Aleksandar Hemon, the 48-year-old Bosnian refugee who has become one of this city's literary rock stars, can amuse and he can devastate. That he does both in his second language, wielded with precision and elegance, has earned him comparisons to Nabokov...

    Tags: Chicago Tribune, Migration, Rentals, Authors, Health Treatments

    5. Mar 8, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Why Benjamin Britten's music is ever youthful

    Benjamin Britten, who never in his life thought of himself as gay, might well be dismayed if he could peer down at how discussion of his life and work has come to be dominated by the matter of his sexuality. The latest biography — by Paul Kildea, a serious scholar and by no means sensationalist — made news by suggesting that Britten's heart condition, which brought about his death at age 63, was the result of syphilis.
    Benjamin Britten, who never in his life thought of himself as gay, might well be dismayed if he could peer down at how discussion of his life and work has come to be dominated by the matter of his sexuality. The latest biography — by Paul Kildea,...

    Tags: Culture, Music Industry, Music, England, The New York Times

    6. Feb 8, 2013 |Column| Allentown Morning Call

  6. What Abraham Lincoln learned from Richard III

    Viewed from the American side of the water, the fanfare about the discovery of the bones of the last Plantagenet monarch probably seems a bit quaint.
    Viewed from the American side of the water, the fanfare about the discovery of the bones of the last Plantagenet monarch probably seems a bit quaint. Having determined that the remains found in Leicester, U.K., a few months back are indeed those of...

    Tags: Richard Nixon, Yale University, Authors, George W. Bush, Literature

    7. Dec 10, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Review: Ties bind even as brickbats fly in 'Other Desert Cities'

    If like me you come from a mixed family, meaning there are conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats boisterously hashing out their differences at the holiday table, you'll have an easy time recognizing the Wyeth clan gathered to celebrate Christmas at the family's Palm Springs compound in Jon Robin Baitz's grippingly entertaining "Other Desert Cities."
    If like me you come from a mixed family, meaning there are conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats boisterously hashing out their differences at the holiday table, you'll have an easy time recognizing the Wyeth clan gathered to celebrate...

    Tags: Religious Festivals, Linda Lavin, Robin Weigert, Stockard Channing, JoBeth Williams

    8. Sep 23, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Louis Simpson dies at 89; Pulitzer-winning poet

    "A poet," Louis Simpson once wrote, "should wish for enough unhappiness to keep him writing."
    "A poet," Louis Simpson once wrote, "should wish for enough unhappiness to keep him writing." Simpson may not have wished for trouble, but he kept writing for 60 years — spare, powerful poems about war, infidelity, suburban alienation and other...

    Tags: Poetry, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Saul Bellow, Stony Brook

    9. Sep 29, 2012 |Story| Tribune Media Services

  9. Liza Minnelli and Tommy Tune -- together on 'Arrested Development'

    Liz Smith
    "How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me." -- W.H. Auden. IT'S NICE when synchronicity happens in the middle of all the desperation that is going...

    Tags: Arrested Development (tv program) , Tony Hale, Jessica Walter, Michael Cera, Madonna

    10. Sep 21, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  10. Lyrical centennial

    Arguing over poetry's cultural relevance is a little like debating the potential effects of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, says Poetry magazine editor Christian Wiman. “For many people, poetry will remain remote, inaccessible and on the same plane of perception as that Arctic refuge,” Wiman contends. “But who knows by what unconscious routes poetry is reaching into lives that seem to have nothing to do with it?”
    Arguing over poetry's cultural relevance is a little like debating the potential effects of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, says Poetry magazine editor Christian Wiman. “For many people, poetry will remain remote,...

    Tags: Wildlife, Chemical Industry, Poetry, Charity, Chicago Tribune

    11. Aug 29, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  11. Gabriel Kahane's "February House" Recording Available

    <span>It&rsquo;s no secret how more I greatly admire <strong>Gabriel Kahane</strong>&rsquo;s terrific score to his new musical <strong>&ldquo;February House&rdquo;</strong> when its had its world premiere earlier this year at New Haven&rsquo;s<strong> Long Wharf Theatre</strong>. It subsequently had a run at off-Broadway&rsquo;s <strong>The Public Theater.</strong></span>
    Hartford Courant
    It’s no secret how more I greatly admire Gabriel Kahane’s terrific score to his new musical “February House” when its had its world premiere earlier this year at New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre. It subsequently had a run at...

    Tags: Long Wharf Theatre, Carnegie Hall, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Brooklyn Heights

    12. Aug 24, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Christopher Plummer still has 'A Word or Two' to say

    <em>"First you're young. Then you're old. Then you're wonderful."</em>
    "First you're young. Then you're old. Then you're wonderful." — Alice Roosevelt Longworth STRATFORD, Canada — Christopher Plummer is in the wonderful phase of his career — and at 82 he's seizing the opportunity. In February, the six-...

    Tags: Culture, Entertainment Events, Celebrities, Michael Caine, Betty White

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