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This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2019
Copyright © Ian Sansom 2019
Cover design by Heike Schüssler
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Ian Sansom asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
Unpublished writings by W. H. Auden are quoted with the permission of the Estate of W. H. Auden.
‘September 1, 1939’ from Another Time by W. H. Auden (1940, Faber & Faber).
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Source ISBN: 9780007557233
Ebook Edition © July 2019 ISBN: 9780007557226
Version: 2020-06-17
For N. J. Humphrey
Contents
1 Cover
2 Title Page
3 Copyright
4 Dedication
5 Contents
6 Wow!
7 September 1, 1939
8 Your Least Favourite Auden Poem?
9 Just a Title
10 1
11 I ≠ A
12 The Modern Poet
13 Not Standing
14 A Not Insignificant Americanism
15 A Rolling Tomato Gathers No Mayonnaise
16 Clever-Clever
17 Various Cosmic Thingummys
18 Offensive Smells
19 2
20 A Little Spank-Spank
21 Strangeways
22 Is Berlin Very Wicked?
23 Do Not Tell Other Writers to F*** Off
24 3
25 The Latin for the Judgin’
26 4
27 Aerodynamics
28 Get Rid of the (Expletive) Braille
29 Tower of Babel Time
30 5
31 The Liquid Menu
32 Below Average
33 Soft Furnishings
34 6
35 Talking Trash
36 You Can’t Say ‘Mad’ Nijinsky
37 7
38 Homo Faber
39 8
40 As Our Great Poet Auden Said
41 We Must Die Anyway
42 9
43 Twinkling
44 A New Chapter in My Life
45 Twenty-Five Years’ Worth of Reading
46 Also by Ian Sansom
47 About the Author
48 About the Publisher
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