Chronology Entry
Year
1939
Text
Auden, W.H. Hong-Kong. In : Auden, W.H. ; Isherwood, Christopher. Journey to a war [ID D3432].
The leading characters are wise and witty;
Substantial men of birth and education,
With wide experience of administration,
They know the manners of a modern city.
Only the servants enter unexpected;
Their silence has a fresh dramatic use:
Here in the East the bankers have erected
A worthy temple to the Comic Muse.
Ten thousand miles from home and What's-Her-Name
The bugle on the Late Victorian hill
Puts out the soldier's light; off-stage, a war
[Text in Journey to a war]
Thuds like the slamming of a distant door:
Each has his comic role in life to fill,
Though Life be neither comic nor a game.
= [Text in Sonnets from China]
Thuds like the slamming of a distant door:
We cannot postulate a General Will;
For what we are, we have ourselves to blame.
The leading characters are wise and witty;
Substantial men of birth and education,
With wide experience of administration,
They know the manners of a modern city.
Only the servants enter unexpected;
Their silence has a fresh dramatic use:
Here in the East the bankers have erected
A worthy temple to the Comic Muse.
Ten thousand miles from home and What's-Her-Name
The bugle on the Late Victorian hill
Puts out the soldier's light; off-stage, a war
[Text in Journey to a war]
Thuds like the slamming of a distant door:
Each has his comic role in life to fill,
Though Life be neither comic nor a game.
= [Text in Sonnets from China]
Thuds like the slamming of a distant door:
We cannot postulate a General Will;
For what we are, we have ourselves to blame.
Mentioned People (1)
Auden, W.H.
(York 1907-1973 Wien) : Dichter, Schriftsteller, Professor of Poetry, Oxford University ; amerikanische Staatsbürgerschaft
Subjects
Literature : Occident : Great Britain
Documents (2)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 1939 | Auden, W.H. ; Isherwood, Christopher. Journey to a war. (New York, N.Y. : Random House ; London : Faber & Faber, 1939). = Auden, W.H. Journey to a war. (New York, N.Y. : Octagon Books, 1972).= Rev. ed. (London : Faber and Faber, 1973). [Enthält : Sonnets from China].[Bericht über die Jahre 1937-1945]. | Publication / Aud5 | |
| 2 | 1967 | Auden, W.H. Sonnets from China. In : Auden, W.H. Collected shorter poems, 1927-1957. (New York, N.Y. : Random House, 1966). | Publication / Aud12 |
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