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| Introduction | |
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| A Note on the Text | |
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| Poems from Youth | |
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| "I introduce Penelope Gwin..." | |
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| "Once on a hill I met a man..." | |
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| 1929-1936: College, New York, Europe, Florida | |
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| "A lovely finish I have seen..." | |
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| Good-Bye | |
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| For a Pair of Eyebrows | |
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| Apologia | |
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| A Warning to Salesmen | |
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| Washington as a Surveyor | |
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| Three Poems | |
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| Song-for the Clavichord | |
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| In the Tower | |
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| Valentine V | |
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| "The past..." | |
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| "We went to the dark cave of the street-corner..." | |
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| Luxembourg Gardens | |
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| In a Room | |
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| Naples, Fla-'36 | |
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| 1937-1950: Key West, Washington, D.C., Yaddo, Nova Scotia | |
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| "What would be worst of all..." | |
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| Villanelle | |
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| "Under such heavy clouds of love..." | |
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| Dream | |
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| Florida | |
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| Money | |
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| Valentine | |
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| "We hadn't meant to spend so much time..." | |
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| "From the shallow night-long graves..." | |
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| The Street by the Cemetery | |
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| "It is marvellous to wake up together..." | |
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| Florida Deserta | |
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| For A.B. | |
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| The Salesman's Evening | |
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| Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box | |
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| Key West | |
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| Hannah A. | |
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| After the Rain | |
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| The Soldier and the Slot-Machine | |
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| Full Moon, Key West | |
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| "The walls went on for years & years..." | |
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| Stoves & Clocks | |
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| Little Thaw in January | |
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| "Don't you call me that word, honey..." | |
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| Current Dreams | |
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| The Museum | |
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| The Traveller to Rome | |
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| Dear Dr. | |
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| "I had a bad dream..." | |
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| "In the golden early morning..." | |
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| "In a cheap hotel..." | |
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| To the Admirable Miss Moore | |
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| Homesickness | |
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| The Owl's Journey | |
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| On the Prince of Fundy | |
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| 1951-1967: Brazil, Seattle, New York | |
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| Crossing the Equator | |
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| Young Man in the Park | |
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| For M.B.S., buried in Nova Scotia | |
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| "One afternoon my aunt and I..." | |
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| Syllables | |
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| "Where are the dolls who loved me so..." | |
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| A Short, Slow Life | |
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| Suicide of a Moderate Dictator | |
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| To Manuel Bandeira, With Jam and Jelly | |
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| The Grandmothers | |
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| St. John's Day | |
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| The moon burgled the house | |
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| A Baby Found in the Garbage | |
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| Letter to Two Friends | |
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| New Year's Letter as Auden Says | |
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| Foreign-Domestic | |
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| Miami | |
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| Keaton | |
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| Mimoso, Near Death | |
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| Brasil, 1959 | |
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| On the Amazon | |
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| "Let Shakespeare & Milton..." | |
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| (For the window-pane) | |
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| The Blue Chairs (that dream) | |
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| Gypsophilia | |
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| To the Brook | |
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| All afternoon the freighters-Rio | |
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| Mimosas in Bloom | |
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| Rainy Day, Rio | |
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| Apartment in Leme | |
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| Something I've Meant to Write About for 30 Years | |
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| For T.C.B. | |
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| "Dear, my compass..." | |
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| "Close close all night..." | |
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| The Pretender | |
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| Inventory | |
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| 1968-1979: San Francisco, Ouro Preto, Cambridge, Boston | |
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| "Far far away there, where I met..." | |
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| Aubade and Elegy | |
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| A Drunkard | |
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| Vague Poem (Vaguely love poem) | |
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| For Grandfather | |
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| Swan-Boat Ride | |
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| "A mother made of dress-goods..." | |
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| Breakfast Song | |
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| Belated Dedication | |
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| Memory of Baltimore | |
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| Travelling, A Love Poem | |
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| Salem Willows | |
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| Just North of Boston | |
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| Dicky and Sister | |
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| (Florida Revisited)? | |
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| Sammy | |
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| Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Mechanics of Pretence: Remarks on W. H. Auden | |
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| Verdigris | |
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| Homesickness | |
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| True Confessions | |
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| Suicide of a (Moderate) Dictator-A Report in Verse & Prose | |
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| Mrs. Sullivan Downstairs | |
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| "Writing poetry is an unnatural act..." | |
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| Making the Wallpaper Come Off the Wall | |
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| The Fairy Toll-Taker | |
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| Ungracious Poem | |
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| Notes on the "Elegy" poem | |
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| Drafts of "One Art" | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index of Titles and First Lines | |