Comments on: Will a grand and honest decade be any better? http://www.thewormbook.com/hlog/?p=2151 Cognitive Assonance Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:21:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tim Skellett http://www.thewormbook.com/hlog/?p=2151&cpage=1#comment-5252 Tim Skellett Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:54:23 +0000 http://www.thewormbook.com/hlog/?p=2151#comment-5252 Hiya Andrew Brown, only discovered this other blog of yours just now. Wishing you, if belatedly so, a very happy 2010, and more strength to your pen and keyboard! Just to let you know that many readers do enjoy your posts. Hiya Andrew Brown,

only discovered this other blog of yours just now. Wishing you, if belatedly so, a very happy 2010, and more strength to your pen and keyboard! Just to let you know that many readers do enjoy your posts.

]]> By: acb http://www.thewormbook.com/hlog/?p=2151&cpage=1#comment-5211 acb Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:07:55 +0000 http://www.thewormbook.com/hlog/?p=2151#comment-5211 Well, I can see why he might have rejected some of it, but this stanza is flawless: bq. Faces along the bar Cling to their average day: The lights must never go out, The music must always play, All the conventions conspire To make this fort assume The furniture of home; Lest we should see where we are, Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good. Well, I can see why he might have rejected some of it, but this stanza is flawless:

Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play,
All the conventions conspire
To make this fort assume
The furniture of home;
Lest we should see where we are,
Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.
]]> By: Andrew http://www.thewormbook.com/hlog/?p=2151&cpage=1#comment-5210 Andrew Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:58:59 +0000 http://www.thewormbook.com/hlog/?p=2151#comment-5210 If I remember correctly, that's one of the poems Auden fired from his canon which is why it isn't in the collected shorter poems ("Spain" is another). Edward Mendelson talks about it in the introduction to the selected poems, which includes a few more Auden either rejected in later life, or tinkered with to (Mendelson thinks) the poem's detriment. If I remember correctly, that’s one of the poems Auden fired from his canon which is why it isn’t in the collected shorter poems (“Spain” is another). Edward Mendelson talks about it in the introduction to the selected poems, which includes a few more Auden either rejected in later life, or tinkered with to (Mendelson thinks) the poem’s detriment.

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