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Auden and Isherwood: Online audio and video content

An online research guide to support students of Brooke Allen and Mark Wunderlich's Auden and Isherwood (LIT2498.01) class.

As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)

W.H. Auden reads his thought-provoking lyric 'As I Walked Out One Evening', written in 1937.

Doggerel by a Senior Citizen (1969)

In Praise of Limestone (1948)

The Shield of Achilles (1953)

The Addictions of Sin

To commemorate the centenary of the birth of one of Britain's most influential and best-loved poets, this film combines dramatizations of telling events in the life of W.H. Auden with interviews from the TV and radio archives and extracts from Auden's poetry, notebooks, letters and journals.

Day at Night: Christopher Isherwood

Christopher Isherwood shares memories of poet W.H. Auden and gives background information on his own stories.  Tape Date: 4/25/1974