The WH Auden poem commonly known as 'Stop All The Clocks', is more properly known by what title?
"Hedli Anderson Antoinette Millicent Hedley Anderson (1907–1990) was an English singer and actor. Known as Hedli Anderson, she studied singing in England and Germany before returning to London in 1934. Anderson joined the Group Theatre, and performed in cabaret and in the initial productions of plays by W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Louis MacNeice. She married MacNeice in 1942; the couple had one daughter. They separated in 1960. Among the composers and lyricists who wrote songs for her were Auden, MacNeice, Benjamin Britten, Elisabeth Lutyens and William Alwyn. Auden's ""Funeral Blues"" (also known as ""Stop all the clocks"", later"
"Stop the Clocks (song) ""Stop the Clocks"" is a song by English rock band Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. Written by guitarist and vocalist Noel Gallagher in 2001, the song was originally recorded for the Oasis album ""Don't Believe the Truth"" in 2004, but was removed from the final track listing. When the band released a compilation of the same name, it was rumoured that the song would appear as a bonus track on the album, but as of 2009 (and the disbandment of Oasis) the song remained unreleased. A studio performance of the song, believed to be dating from"
"group of critics and poets has maintained that unlike other modern poets, Auden's reputation did not decline after his death, and the influence of his later writing was especially strong on younger American poets including John Ashbery, James Merrill, Anthony Hecht, and Maxine Kumin. Typical later evaluations describe him as ""arguably the [20th] century's greatest poet"" (Peter Parker and Frank Kermode), who ""now clearly seems the greatest poet in English since Tennyson"" (Philip Hensher). Public recognition of Auden's work sharply increased after his ""Funeral Blues"" (""Stop all the clocks"") was read aloud in the film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"""
"Horae Canonicae Horae Canonicae is a series of poems by W. H. Auden written between 1949 and 1955. The title is a reference to the canonical hours of the Christian Church, as are the titles of the seven poems constituting the series: ""Prime"", ""Terce"", ""Sext"", ""Nones"", ""Vespers"", ""Compline"", and ""Lauds"". Each refers to a fixed time of the day for prayer. The canonical hours create a framework for the dramatization of Auden's religious position, which he described in a letter as ""very much the same as Reinhold [Neibuhr]'s, i.e. Augustinian, not Thomist (I would allow a little more place, perhaps,"
"for the ""Via Negativa"".) Liturgically, I am Anglo-Catholic..."". ""Prime"" and ""Nones"" were first published in Auden's collection ""Nones"" (1951). ""Horae Canonicae"" was published as a unity in Auden's ""The Shield of Achilles"" (1955). Horae Canonicae Horae Canonicae is a series of poems by W. H. Auden written between 1949 and 1955. The title is a reference to the canonical hours of the Christian Church, as are the titles of the seven poems constituting the series: ""Prime"", ""Terce"", ""Sext"", ""Nones"", ""Vespers"", ""Compline"", and ""Lauds"". Each refers to a fixed time of the day for prayer. The canonical hours create a framework"
"the life of the Queen Mother. To move on."" The piece was published as the preface to the order of service for the Queen Mother's funeral in Westminster Abbey on 9 April 2002, with authorship stated as ""Anonymous"". According to a report in ""The Guardian"":Such was the popular mood (remember the queues across the bridges near Westminster Abbey) that the words of the poem, so plain as scarcely to be poetic, seemed to strike a chord. Not since Auden's 'Stop All the Clocks' in the film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"" had a piece of funerary verse made such an"
"W. H. Auden Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form and content. He is best known for love poems such as ""Funeral Blues"", poems on political and social themes such as ""September 1, 1939"" and ""The Shield of Achilles"", poems on cultural and psychological themes such as ""The Age of Anxiety"", and poems on religious themes such as ""For the Time Being"" and ""Horae Canonicae"". He was born in"
"below, works reprinted in the ""Complete Works of W. H. Auden"" are indicated by footnote references. Sources W. H. Auden Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form and content. He is best known for love poems such as ""Funeral Blues"", poems on political and social themes such as ""September 1, 1939"" and ""The Shield of Achilles"", poems on cultural and psychological themes such as ""The Age of Anxiety"", and"
"in the contemporary world. Auden wrote the poem to be set to music by Benjamin Britten, but it was far too long for this purpose, and Britten set only two fragments, including one (""Shepherd's Carol"") that Auden dropped before the work was published. The poem is dedicated to the memory of Auden's mother, Constance Rosalie Bicknell Auden. For the Time Being ""For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio"", is a long poem by W. H. Auden, written 1941-42, and first published in 1944. It was one of two long poems included in Auden's book also titled For the Time Being,"
"For the Time Being ""For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio"", is a long poem by W. H. Auden, written 1941-42, and first published in 1944. It was one of two long poems included in Auden's book also titled For the Time Being, published in 1944; the other poem included in the book was ""The Sea and the Mirror."" The poem is a series of dramatic monologues spoken by the characters in the Christmas story and by choruses and a narrator. The characters all speak in modern diction, and the events of the story are portrayed as if they occurred"
"Stop the Clocks Stop the Clocks is a compilation album by the English rock band Oasis, released on 20 November 2006. The ""retrospective collection"" is an 18-track double album with the featured songs chosen by Noel Gallagher; however, it does not actually include their song ""Stop the Clocks"" after which the album is named. It went 5× Platinum in the United Kingdom, with sales better than any Oasis release since ""Be Here Now"". The album came about due to the end of Oasis' recording contract with Sony BMG Music Entertainment. Noel Gallagher has gone on record before on numerous occasions"
"The Double Man (book) The Double Man is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1941. The title of the UK edition, published later the same year was ""New Year Letter"". ""The Double Man"" begins with a verse ""Prologue"" (""O season of repetition and return""), followed by a long three-part philosophical poem in octosyllabic couplets, ""New Year Letter"" and an idiosyncratic set of ""Notes"" to the poem in prose and verse. These are followed by the sonnet sequence ""The Quest"" and a verse ""Epilogue"" (""Returning each morning from a timeless world""). The entire book was written in"
"published in 1955, containing Auden's poems written from around 1951 through 1954. It begins with the sequence ""Bucolics"", then miscellaneous poems under the heading ""In Sunshine and In Shade"", then the sequence ""Horae Canonicae"". It won the U.S. National Book Award for Poetry in 1956. The Shield of Achilles The Shield of Achilles is a poem by W. H. Auden first published in 1952, and the title work of a collection of poems by Auden, published in 1955. It is Auden's response to the detailed description, or ""ekphrasis"", of the shield borne by the hero Achilles in Homer's epic poem"
"Another Time (book) Another Time is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1940. This book contains Auden's shorter poems written between 1936 and 1939, except for those already published in Letters from Iceland and Journey to a War. These poems are among the best-known of his entire career. The book is divided into three parts, ""People and Places"", ""Lighter Poems"", and ""Occasional Poems"". ""People and Places"" includes ""Law, say the gardeners, is the sun"", ""Oxford"", ""A. E. Housman"", ""Edward Lear"", ""Herman Melville"", ""The Capital"", ""Voltaire at Ferney"", ""Orpheus"", ""Musée des Beaux Arts"", ""Gare du Midi"", ""Dover"","
"Poems (Auden) Poems is the title of three separate collections of the early poetry of W. H. Auden. Auden refused to title his early work because he wanted the reader to confront the poetry itself. Consequently, his first book was called simply ""Poems"" when it was printed by his friend and fellow poet Stephen Spender in 1928; he used the same title for the very different book published by Faber & Faber in 1930 (second edition 1933), and by Random House in 1934 (which also included ""The Orators"" and ""The Dance of Death""). The privately printed 1928 edition of ""Poems"""
"also common, but most residents of the End of Time find leaving the planet distasteful and clichéd. The title of the series is itself taken from a poem by a fictitious 19th Century poet, Ernest Wheldrake, which Mrs. Amelia Underwood quotes in ""The End of All Songs"". ""Ernest Wheldrake"" had been a pseudonym used by Algernon Charles Swinburne. The original trilogy (""An Alien Heat"", ""The Hollow Lands"", and ""The End of All Songs"") was published between 1972 and 1976. The trilogy purports to tell the last love story in human history. Other stories in this sequence include ""The Transformation of"
"time in Iceland... I enjoyed Spain too, & now London. Hampstead is the best part to live, I think. Stephen Spender is back in London & I am going to a party he is having this Thursday... Not that I'm really lonely because I'm so busy - or else so idle in that I waste a lot of time seeing people & talking."" (10 November 1936). ""Epilogue for W. H. Auden"" is a poem of 19 stanzas, each of four lines. The rhyme scheme is ""aabb"". The poem is written in tetrameters (lines of four metrical feet). W. H. Auden"
"1940, and indirectly records Auden's return to the Anglican Communion. The book is dedicated to Elizabeth Mayer. The Double Man (book) The Double Man is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1941. The title of the UK edition, published later the same year was ""New Year Letter"". ""The Double Man"" begins with a verse ""Prologue"" (""O season of repetition and return""), followed by a long three-part philosophical poem in octosyllabic couplets, ""New Year Letter"" and an idiosyncratic set of ""Notes"" to the poem in prose and verse. These are followed by the sonnet sequence ""The Quest"""
"Five Bells ""Five Bells"" (1939) is a meditative poem by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor. It was originally published as the title poem in the author's collection ""Five Bells : XX Poems"", and later appeared in numerous poetry anthologies. The poem is a meditative piece based on a ship's bell ringing five bells - which occurs at either 2:30, 6:30, 10:30, 14:30, 18:30 or 22:30. The poem is a reflection of the death of Slessor's friend Joe Lynch who drowned in Sydney Harbour in 1927. In her essay ""'Living Backward' : Slessor and Masculine Elegy"" (1997) Kate Lilley noted: ""Chronologically displaced,"
"insistent sense of calamity, sometimes in the space of the same couplet: 'Time for the soul to stretch and spit / Before the world comes back on it'."" Epilogue For W. H. Auden ""Epilogue For W. H. Auden"" is a 76-line poem by Louis MacNeice. It was written in late 1936 and was first published in book form in ""Letters from Iceland"", a travel book in prose and verse by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice (1937). MacNeice subsequently included it as the last poem in his poetry collection ""The Earth Compels"" (1938). ""Epilogue For W. H. Auden"" reviews the"
"first of ten poems grouped together in ""Ten Songs"", which also includes the above-mentioned ""Calypso"". Refugee Blues ""Refugee Blues"" is a poem by W. H. Auden, written in 1939, one of a number of poems Auden wrote in the mid- to late-1930s in blues and other popular metres, for example the meter he used in his love poem ""Calypso"", written around the same time. The poem dramatizes the condition of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the years before World War II, especially the indifference and antagonism they faced when seeking asylum in the democracies of the period. In some"
"""A Lullaby"" [""The din of work is subdued""]). His last completed poem was ""Archaeology"", about ritual and timelessness, two recurring themes in his later years. Auden's stature in modern literature has been contested. Probably the most common critical view from the 1930s onward ranked him as the last and least of the three major twentieth-century British and Irish poets, Yeats, Eliot, Auden, while a minority view, more prominent in recent years, ranks him as the highest of the three. Opinions have ranged from those of Hugh MacDiarmid, who called him ""a complete wash-out,"" F. R. Leavis who wrote that Auden's"
"disc version of the album was packaged with the ""Stop the Clocks"" EP as a bonus disc. Stop the Clocks Stop the Clocks is a compilation album by the English rock band Oasis, released on 20 November 2006. The ""retrospective collection"" is an 18-track double album with the featured songs chosen by Noel Gallagher; however, it does not actually include their song ""Stop the Clocks"" after which the album is named. It went 5× Platinum in the United Kingdom, with sales better than any Oasis release since ""Be Here Now"". The album came about due to the end of Oasis'"
"The Age of Anxiety The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1947; first UK edition, 1948) is a long poem in six parts by W. H. Auden, written mostly in a modern version of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. The poem deals, in eclogue form, with man's quest to find substance and identity in a shifting and increasingly industrialized world. Set in a wartime bar in New York City, Auden uses four characters – Quant, Malin, Rosetta, and Emble – to explore and develop his themes. The poem won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1948. It inspired a symphony by composer"
"Musée des Beaux Arts (poem) ""Musée des Beaux Arts"" (French for ""Museum of Fine Arts"") is a poem written by W. H. Auden in December 1938 while he was staying in Brussels, Belgium with Christopher Isherwood. It was first published under the title ""Palais des beaux arts"" (Palace of Fine Arts) in the Spring 1939 issue of ""New Writing"", a modernist magazine edited by John Lehmann. It next appeared in the collected volume of verse ""Another Time"" (New York: Random House, 1940), which was followed four months later by the English edition (London: Faber and Faber, 1940). The poem's title"
"book in the United States. The publisher included all three of the books that Auden had published in the UK in this volume. For a few readers and critics, e. g., Randall Jarrell, the 1930 and 1933 versions remain Auden's greatest achievement. Poems (Auden) Poems is the title of three separate collections of the early poetry of W. H. Auden. Auden refused to title his early work because he wanted the reader to confront the poetry itself. Consequently, his first book was called simply ""Poems"" when it was printed by his friend and fellow poet Stephen Spender in 1928; he"
"and many other poems. ""Lighter Poems"" includes ""Miss Gee"", ""O tell me the truth about love"", ""Funeral Blues"", ""Calypso"", ""Roman Wall Blues"", ""The Unknown Citizen"", ""Refugee Blues"", and other poems. ""Occasional Poems"" includes ""Spain 1937"", ""In Memory of W. B. Yeats"", ""September 1, 1939"", ""In Memory of Sigmund Freud"", and other poems. The book is dedicated to Chester Kallman. Another Time (book) Another Time is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1940. This book contains Auden's shorter poems written between 1936 and 1939, except for those already published in Letters from Iceland and Journey to a"
"of the preceding twelve"". The idea of a clock striking thirteen times has shown up many times in literature. The most famous is the first line in George Orwell’s ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" when it starts with, ""It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen"". The famous children's book ""Tom's Midnight Garden"" by Philippa Pearce speaks of this phenomenon when it says ""When Tom hears old Mrs Bartholomew's grandfather clock in the hall striking thirteen, he goes to investigate"". Thomas Hardy's ""Far from the Madding Crowd"" (1874) 'This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's"
"The Unknown Citizen ""The Unknown Citizen"" is a poem written by W. H. Auden in 1939, shortly after he moved from England to the United States. The poem was first published on January 6, 1940 in ""The New Yorker"", and first appeared in book form in Auden's collection ""Another Time"" (Random House, 1940). The poem is the epitaph of a man identified only by a combination of letters and numbers somewhat like an American Social Security number (""JS/07/M/378""), who is described entirely in external terms: from the point of view of government organizations such as the fictional ""Bureau of Statistics."""
"Canonicae"", an encyclopaedic survey of geological, biological, cultural, and personal history, focused on the irreversible act of murder; the poem was also a study in cyclical and linear ideas of time. While writing this, he also wrote ""Bucolics,"" a sequence of seven poems about man's relation to nature. Both sequences appeared in his next book, ""The Shield of Achilles"" (1955), with other short poems, including the book's title poem, ""Fleet Visit"", and ""Epitaph for the Unknown Soldier"". In 1955–56 Auden wrote a group of poems about ""history"", the term he used to mean the set of unique events made by"
"the press are pleased with his buying papers daily and responding to the ads. The industry poll takers are happy with his buying habits, and teachers are glad he stayed out of their way. In Auden's poem, the entire system and society are responsible for the loss of individualism, whether or not government was the initial cause of the decline. The Unknown Citizen ""The Unknown Citizen"" is a poem written by W. H. Auden in 1939, shortly after he moved from England to the United States. The poem was first published on January 6, 1940 in ""The New Yorker"", and"
"book, in addition to the title poem, include ""Aubade"", ""Unpredictable but Providential"", ""Address to the Beasts"", ""Archaeology"", ""No, Plato, No"", ""Nocturne"", ""A Thanksgiving"", and ""Lullaby"" (""The din of work is subdued""; titled in other editions with a title found in Auden's typescripts, ""A Lullaby"", which distinguishes it from a different earlier poem titled ""Lullaby""). The book also includes two of the lyrics that Auden wrote for the musical comedy Man of La Mancha, which were rejected by the original librettist of that play. Thank You, Fog Thank You, Fog: last poems by W. H. Auden is a posthumous book of"
"September 1, 1939 ""September 1, 1939"" is a poem by W. H. Auden written on the occasion of the outbreak of World War II. It was first published in ""The New Republic"" issue of 18 October 1939, and was first published in book form in Auden's collection ""Another Time"" (1940). The poem deliberately echoes the stanza form of W. B. Yeats's ""Easter, 1916"", another poem about an important historical event; like Yeats' poem, Auden's moves from a description of historical failures and frustrations to a possible transformation in the present or future. Until the two final stanzas, the poem briefly"