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As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks, and Other Light Verse
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Author: W. H. Auden
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As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks, and Other Light Verse Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN: 9780679761709
ISBN: 0679761705
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 240
Publication Date: 1995-08-08
Publisher: Vintage
Product Release Date: 1995-08-08
Studio: Vintage
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN: 9780679761709
ISBN: 0679761705
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 240
Publication Date: 1995-08-08
Publisher: Vintage
Product Release Date: 1995-08-08
Studio: Vintage
Editorial Review of As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks, and Other Light Verse
W. H. Auden once defined light verse as the kind that is written by poets who are democratically in tune with their audience and whose language is straightforward and close to general speech. Given that definition, the 123 poems in this collection all qualify; they are as accessible as popular songs yet have the wisdom and profundity of the greatest poetry.
As I Walked Out One Evening contains some of Auden's most memorable verse: "Now Through the Night's Caressing Grip," "Lullaby: Lay your Sleeping Head, My Love," "Under Which Lyre," and "Funeral Blues." Alongside them are less familiar poems, including seventeen that have never before appeared in book form. Here, among toasts, ballads, limericks, and even a foxtrot, are "Song: The Chimney Sweepers," a jaunty evocation of love, and the hilarious satire "Letter to Lord Byron." By turns lyrical, tender, sardonic, courtly, and risqué, As I Walked Out One Evening is Auden at his most irresistible and affecting.
As I Walked Out One Evening contains some of Auden's most memorable verse: "Now Through the Night's Caressing Grip," "Lullaby: Lay your Sleeping Head, My Love," "Under Which Lyre," and "Funeral Blues." Alongside them are less familiar poems, including seventeen that have never before appeared in book form. Here, among toasts, ballads, limericks, and even a foxtrot, are "Song: The Chimney Sweepers," a jaunty evocation of love, and the hilarious satire "Letter to Lord Byron." By turns lyrical, tender, sardonic, courtly, and risqué, As I Walked Out One Evening is Auden at his most irresistible and affecting.
Customer Reviews of As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks, and Other Light Verse
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Review Summary: Excellent Introduction
Review: This slim volumne is exemplary of how quantity is not an appropriate indicator of poetic genius. I would consider this book 'Auden- Lite'and a very apt first volume of Auden's poetry. The volume has several of Auden's famous poems like 'Funeral Blues' of the Four Weddings and a Funeral fame and 'Lullaby'. While it doesn't do complete justice to Auden's spritual side it has plenty of doggerel verse including 'Jam Tart' and some very amusing short poems. Auden's versatility is very impressive and there is an almost Edwardian charm coupled with a strikingly modern sensibility that make this anthology very enjoyable.
Review Summary: Excellent Introduction
Review: This slim volumne is exemplary of how quantity is not an appropriate indicator of poetic genius. I would consider this book 'Auden- Lite'and a very apt first volume of Auden's poetry. The volume has several of Auden's famous poems like 'Funeral Blues' of the Four Weddings and a Funeral fame and 'Lullaby'. While it doesn't do complete justice to Auden's spritual side it has plenty of doggerel verse including 'Jam Tart' and some very amusing short poems. Auden's versatility is very impressive and there is an almost Edwardian charm coupled with a strikingly modern sensibility that make this anthology very enjoyable.