11/20/2023 0 Comments Auden horae canonicaeHoly this moment, wholly in the right, As, in complete obedience To the light's laconic outcry, next As a sheet, near as a wall, Out there as a mountain's poise of stone, The world is present, about, And I know that I am, here, not alone But with a world and rejoice Unvexed, for the will has still to claim This adjacent arm as my own, The memory to name me, resume Its routine of praise and blame And smiling to me is this instant while Still the day is intact, and I The Adam sinless in our beginning, Adam still previous to any act. Simultaneously, as soundlessly, Spontaneously, suddenly As, at the vaunt of the dawn, the kind Gates of the body fly open To its world beyond, the gates of the mind, The horn gate and the ivory gate Swing to, swing shut, instantaneously Quell the nocturnal rummage Of its rebellious fronde, ill-favored, Ill-natured and second-rate, Disenfranchised, widowed and orphaned By an historical mistake: Recalled from the shades to be a seeing being, From absence to be on display, Without a name or history I wake Between my body and the day. 24.HORAE CANONICAE W.H.Auden HORAE CANONICAE IMMOLATUS VICERIT P., he Theology of Grace (Wisconsin, 1974), p. 73.Īmos Wilder, Theopoetic, Theology and the Religious Imagination (Philadelphia, 1976), p. John Coulson, Religion and Imagination ‘in aid of a grammar of assent’ (Oxford, 1981), p. 364.Īuden, ‘Fish in the unruffled lakesm’, Collected Poems (London, 1976), p. xxxi.Įdward Mendelson, Early Auden (London, 1981), p. Ridler, The Image of the City (London, 1958), Introduction, p. ‘The dedicated craftsman will even neglect religious duties, such as prayers to saints … the names of the saints have no bearing on Auden’s line of thinking!’Ī. Partridge, The Language of Modern Poetry, Teats, Eliot, Auden (Andre Deutsch, 1976) p. Auden, ‘The Greeks and Us’, in Forwards and Afterwards (London, 1973), p. Auden, The Enchafèd Flood (London, 1951). 22.Ĭharles Williams, He Came Down From Heaven (London, 1938). 134.Ĭharles Williams, The Forgiveness of Sins (London, 1942), p. 94f.Ĭharles Williams, ‘The Cross’ in The Image of the City and other essays, edited with an Introduction by Anne Ridler (Oxford, 1958), p. George Steiner, Heidegger (London, 1978), pp. Auden: A Tribute, edited by Stephen Spender (London, 1974, 1975), p. Thinking began on Horae Canonicae in 1947. Richard Johnson, Man’s Place, An Essay on Auden (Cornell, 1973), pp. Bennett, Poetry of the Passion, Studies in Twelve Centuries of English Verse (Oxford, 1982), pp. Auden, ‘Postscript: Christianity and Art’ in The Dyer’s Hand and other essays (in future references, DH) (London, 1963), pp. Joseph Warren Beach, The Making of the Auden Canon, (New York, 1957), passim Īnd Humphrey Carpenter, W.
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