The English Auden

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:literary_work
gptkbp:adaptation gptkb:film
gptkb:stage_play
gptkbp:author gptkb:W._H._Auden
gptkbp:available_in Anthologies
gptkbp:collection Poems by W. H. Auden
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:cover_artist gptkb:Ben_Shahn
gptkbp:critical_reception Positive
gptkbp:cultural_impact gptkb:Significant
gptkbp:editor gptkb:Edward_Mendelson
gptkbp:first_edition 1940 Edition
gptkbp:form gptkb:poetry
gptkbp:genre gptkb:poetry
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The English Auden
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Philip_Larkin
Contemporary Poets
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:T._S._Eliot
gptkb:Romanticism
gptkbp:isbn 978-0393300000
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:motif gptkb:Death
gptkb:Love
gptkb:war
Alienation
gptkbp:notable_quote “ The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.”
“ The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.”
“ If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it.”
“ Poetry makes nothing happen.”
“ We are all here on earth to fart around.”
gptkbp:notable_work The Orators
gptkbp:page_count 320
gptkbp:published_by gptkb:Random_House
gptkbp:published_in gptkb:1940
gptkbp:related_to gptkb:New_York_City
gptkb:Modernism
Expatriate Literature
gptkbp:setting 20th Century England
gptkbp:style Dramatic Monologue
gptkbp:theme gptkb:identity
gptkb:society
Politics
gptkbp:translated_into Multiple Languages
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:W._H._Auden
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5