"In Praise of Limestone" is a poem written by W. H. Auden in Italy in May 1948. Central to his canon and one of Auden's finest poems, it has been the subject...
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Limestone (calcium carbonate CaCO3) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the...
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Landscape (section The Romantic era in Britain)
countryside, and W. H. Auden's "In Praise of Limestone" (1948) uses a limestone landscape as an allegory. Subgenres of topographical poetry include the...
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Topographical poetry (redirect from Poetry of places)
In following centuries, Matthew Arnold's "The Scholar Gipsy" (1853) praised the Oxfordshire countryside, and W. H. Auden's "In Praise of Limestone" (1948)...
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W. H. Auden (category Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
had emphasised in the 1930s); his poems on these themes included "In Praise of Limestone" (1948) and "Memorial for the City" (1949). In 1947-1948, Auden...
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Forio (category Municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Naples)
In Praise of Limestone. And the American Poet, Theodore Roethke, dedicated his poem The Storm, to "Forio d'Ischia" as printed in Selected Poems of Theodore...
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Ischia (redirect from Island of Ischia)
poem "In Praise of Limestone" here, the first poem he wrote in Italy. In 1949, British classical composer William Walton settled in Ischia. In 1956, he...
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"In Praise of Limestone", "Prime", "Nones," "Memorial for the City", "Precious Five", and "A Walk After Dark". "Nones" is a contemporary setting of the...
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Witheford, The Falcon Mark W. H. Auden, Nones, including the poem "In Praise of Limestone" E. C. Bentley, Clerihews Complete Basil Bunting, Seeds, a long...
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poem in XXIV elegies Vernon Watkins, The Lady with the Unicorn W. H. Auden, "In Praise of Limestone", a poem published in Horizon in July (written in May)...
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