Something new on KZread on Auden … wonderful!

Great to see Melvyn standing in front of a snowy Killhope Wheel

Wonderful….thank you for showing….

Good to see John Warwick cranking his camera.

This is a great share: so it's a big thank you from this old Queer!

@wordscapes5690

9 ай бұрын

And this one 😊

@aclark903

8 ай бұрын

@@wordscapes5690There once was a gorgeous young queer Who was rather too fond of brown beer One night in a bout He accidentally came out To the barmaid, who said “Lots round ere”.

That guy actually looks a little like Auden

I love Auden's poetry. I don't know any 20th century English poet who produced better verse than he did. And Melvyn, dear, why bring up that so old -- decades old -- row about Auden and Isherwood staying in America during the war? Who the hell cares? In 1940, Auden was 33 and Isherwood 36 -- hardly in their prime battlefield years. Should they have come back to London and written telegraphs for the Foreign Office? Come up out of the trenches, Melvyn; the war is over. Besides, England didn't really treat its gay war heroes all that well, did it? I mean, look what it did to Alan Turing, who practically saved the island single handedly. The way Bragg sets up the narrative of this documentary is really mendacious.

@liammcooper

25 күн бұрын

Does perhaps explain why people stopped reading Auden as much, however.