![]() ![]() ![]() 2 The Age of Anxiety.I also included jazz pianist Andreas Schnermann's Tell Me The Truth About Love, which set 12 Auden poems to music. To celebrated Auden's 105th birthday, I put together a playlist of music based on his poems and translations, including Auden songs from Barber, Britten ( Fish in the Unruffled Lakes), Foss ( We're Late), Henze, Rorem and many more libretti, including The Rake's Progress and Elegy for Young Lovers and compositions inspired by his writings, like Bernstein's Symphony No. Auden’s poetry is considered versatile and inventive, ranging from the tersely epigrammatic to book-length verse, and incorporating a vast range of scientific knowledge." Poetry Foundation Some critics have called Auden an “antiromantic”-a poet of analytical clarity who sought for order, for universal patterns of human existence. While the teachings of Marx and Freud weighed heavily in his early work, they later gave way to religious and spiritual influences. "Much of his poetry is concerned with moral issues and evidences a strong political, social, and psychological context. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. ![]()
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