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Re: Orators

  • Subject: Re: Orators
  • From: EDoxtator <doc6502@ya...com>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:56:33 -0700 (PDT)
The only references I could find re: published versions of The Orators 
were:

The Orators. Faber, 1930; 2nd edition: 1934; 3rd edition:, 1966 and Random
House, 1967.

I'm sure there are others...

-Doc

--- Philip Rush <philip_rush@ye...fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> Auden's poem Journal of an Airman is part of a much longer piece, The 
> Orators, which is itself a kind of performance script half-way between 
> poetry per se and a play.
> 
> I don't expect you can buy a copy of The Orators except as a 
> collector's edition from the 30s which will be v expensive.  However, 
> mine is in a paperback volume called The English Auden and edited by 
> Mendelson.
> 
> In 1939 Auden went off the US and became the American Auden (I 
> suppose):  this big book contains stuff from the 30s which is hard 
> otherwise to obtain - Auden was a big reviser of early work and often 
> refused to publish it - eg the poem on Spain.
> 
> Well, that's about it.  If I really cared, I guess I'd have checked on 
> Amazon that you can still buy this book ...
> 
> I do care, really.  I looked on Amazon and it isn't there!
> 
> Maybe try the Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye.  Good on Auden I think.
> 
> Philip
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