Autograph Letter Signed W. H. Auden to Hilde Spiel with Manuscript W. H. Auden "To Goethe: a Complaint" 1969-10-05

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Editor(s)Fruehwirth, Timo; Mayer, Sandra
PublisherAustrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH), Vienna 2027
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  • Austrian National Library
  • Literary Archive
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  • 1969-10-05T00:00:00+01:00--1969-10-05T23:59:59+01:00
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    15/B26/ 3


    Oct 5th, []
    3062 KIRCHSTETTEN
    BEZ. ST. PÖLTEN
    HINTERHOLZ 6
    N.-Ö., AUSTRIA


    Dear Dr Spiel:


    I have just finished re[]ding
    A Darkened Room ,which I enjoyed
    enormously. I am most gratef to
    you for sending it , as also for
    all the trouble yo[] took with the
    translations.


    Till next year, then.


    yous sincerly


    Wystan Auden


    P.S. Do you think this is just criticism ?


    To Goethe: a Complaint


    How wonderfully your songs begin
    With praise of Nature and her bea[]ty,beauty,
    But theren , as if it were a duty,
    You drag some god-dammned sweetheart in .
    Did you imagine she'd be flattered?
    They never sound as if they mattered.


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