Funeral blues /wystan hugh auden thornton

Stop All The Clocks (cut off the telephone)/Funeral Blues.

  • Stop All The Clocks (cut off the telephone)/Funeral Blues.
  • This anthology offers a collection of personal accounts of death, and looks at representations of death, dying and bereavement in fiction, poetry.
  • A poem about the fact that “some people might not believe it, but famous people don't always find true love”?
  • This anthology offers a unique collection of personal accounts of death, dying and bereavement.
  • Wystan Hugh Auden, was born on 21 February 1907.

    • A poem about the fact that “some people might not believe it, but famous people don't always find true love”?...

    This poem can be found under at least four titles. There is some confusion and much discussion on Usenet about the original title of this poem.

    The following information is mainly taken from newsgroup postings.

    The title "Funeral Blues" was used in a publication 3 years after Auden's death, presumably with the knowledge and permission of Auden's literary executors, amongst whom was Edward Mendelson, unchallenged in his role as Auden's chief editor, biographer and critic.

    Professor Mendelson himself used that title for the poem when editing "Collected Poems" (1976).

    'Auden reprinted the poem under various titles, as was his habit.

    Analysis: Title.

    In "Collected Shorter Poems" it appears as one of the 12 songs. But he also pub'd it as "Funeral Blues." I am also pretty sure the poem first appeared in the verse play "The Ascent of F-6" which Auden wrote with Christopher Isherwood.'
    - Richard Elias

    "Auden intended it to be set to music, and it has been used as lyrics at least three times.

    It was