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On This Island

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The book contains thirty-one poems. The opening "Prologue" ("O Love the interest itself in thoughtless heaven") is followed by short and long poems including "Hearing of harvests", "O what is that sound", "Out on the lawn", "Brothers who when the sirens roar", "Love had him fast", "A shilling life",
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asked him to supply a better title since neither of them liked it. However, since he was traveling in
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in the UK in 1936, then published under Auden's preferred title,
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Auden disliked the title and asked his American publisher,
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Originally, Auden had given it the preliminary title
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and was inaccessible, the publisher titled the book
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W. H. Auden
Faber & Faber
Iceland
Random House
Erika Mann
Benjamin Britten
"Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-73) - Look, stranger! : poems / by W.H. Auden"
John Fuller
Edward Mendelson
The W. H. Auden Society
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W. H. Auden
Poems
The Orators
On This Island
Another Time
The Double Man
For the Time Being
The Age of Anxiety
Nones
The Shield of Achilles
Homage to Clio
About the House
City Without Walls
Academic Graffiti
Epistle to a Godson
Thank You, Fog

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