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      4th Estate

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2019

      Copyright © Ian Sansom 2019

      Ian Sansom asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      Unpublished writings by W. H. Auden are quoted with the permission of the Estate of W. H. Auden.

      ‘September 1, 1939’ from Another Time by W. H. Auden (1940, Faber & Faber).

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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      Source ISBN: 9780007557219

      Ebook Edition © July 2019 ISBN: 9780007557226

      Version: 2019-08-02

      For N. J. Humphrey

      Contents

      1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright

      4  Dedication

      5  Contents

      6  Wow!

      7  September 1, 1939

      8 Your Least Favourite Auden Poem?

      9  Just a Title

      10  1

      11  I ≠ A

      12  The Modern Poet

      13  Not Standing

      14  A Not Insignificant Americanism

      15  A Rolling Tomato Gathers No Mayonnaise

      16  Clever-Clever

      17  Various Cosmic Thingummys

      18  Offensive Smells

      19  2

      20  A Little Spank-Spank

      21  Strangeways

      22  Is Berlin Very Wicked?

      23  Do Not Tell Other Writers to F*** Off

      24  3

      25  The Latin for the Judgin’

      26  4

      27  Aerodynamics

      28  Get Rid of the (Expletive) Braille

      29  Tower of Babel Time

      30  5

      31  The Liquid Menu

      32  Below Average

      33  Soft Furnishings

      34  6

      35  Talking Trash

      36  You Can’t Say ‘Mad’ Nijinsky

      37  7

      38  Homo Faber

      39  8

      40  As Our Great Poet Auden Said

      41  We Must Die Anyway

      42  9

      43  Twinkling

      44  A New Chapter in My Life

      45  Twenty-Five Years’ Worth of Reading

      46  Also by Ian Sansom

      47  About the Author

      48  About the Publisher

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