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Kobayashi Issa, “Mosquito at my ear”

Posted on February 25, 2017 by ashok / 0 Comment

Mosquito at my ear (from Modern American Poetry) Kobayashi Issa (tr. Robert Hass) Mosquito at my ear– does it think I’m deaf? Comment: “About ...

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W.H. Auden, “Musée des Beaux Arts”

Posted on January 17, 2015 by ashok

Musée des Beaux Arts W.H. Auden About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While so...

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W.H. Auden, “The Fall of Rome”

Posted on December 11, 2010 by ashok / 2 Comments

The Fall of Rome (from poets.org) W.H. Auden The piers are pummelled by the waves; In a lonely field the rain Lashes an abandoned train; Outlaws fill the mounta...

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Tyrannical Ambition: On Auden’s "Epitaph On A Tyrant"

Posted on May 31, 2007 by ashok / 7 Comments

Epitaph On A Tyrant W.H. Auden Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the bac...

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