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Audenesque

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adj.1.of or pertaining to W. H. Auden.
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Adj.1.Audenesque - in the manner of W. H. Auden
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In the last stanza of his elegy "In Carrowdore Churchyard," subtitled "at the grave of Louis MacNeice," are found these Audenesque phrases that bring the natural and personal worlds together with the res publica: "From the pneumonia of the ditch, from ague/Of the blind poet and the bombed-out town you bring/The all-clear to the empty holes of spring.
Derek Mahon: exile & stranger by Tillinghast, Richard / New Criterion
By concentrating on the ideas Auden moved between and through, rather than on minute biographical details, Richard Davenport-Hines gives his book a hint of Audenesque mystery.
Auden by Wren, Celia / Commonweal
So, it is in this Audenesque spirit that I recommend the following random selection of recently released books.
Critics' choices for Christmas by Franck, Frederick / Commonweal
 
 
 
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