Love Flashcards

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Connolly on Lullaby

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‘Auden’s non-pamphleteering love lyric was by far the best thing in his recent work, and utterly without political purpose’

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Clive James

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‘the need fro find an acceptable expression for his homosexuality was the first technical obstacle’

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Auden on love / deceiving

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‘Love is the subject in which we deceive ourselves the most’

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Auden on love for his poems

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‘all the poems I have written were written for love’

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“Like love we often weep,

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/ Like love we seldom keep’ - Law, Like Love (1939)

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Mendelson

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‘his long poems on historical, literary, philosophical, and religious themes turn into love poetry in their closing lines’

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James Merrill

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once remarked that all of Auden’s poems were written on paper on which the tears had dried.

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