Babel Tower on Circe: “Quoted as a section epigraph: 'W. H. Auden, "Circe."'”
Babel Tower on Death's Echo: “Quoted as a section epigraph: 'W. H. Auden, "Death's Echo," 1936.'”
The Year of Magical Thinking on Funeral Blues: “There were days when I relied on W. H. Auden, the "Funeral Blues" lines from The Ascent of F6: Stop all the clocks...”
Blue Nights on Funeral Blues: “Quotes the full sixteen-line poem ("Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone..."); reads it after John's death, later shows it to Quintana, who called it "wrong."”
Blue Nights on Many Happy Returns: “These are the lines from W. H. Auden that Tony quoted that afternoon as 'the best advice for the day'... 'So I wish you first a Sense of theatre—'”
Hitch-22 on On the Circuit: “I now believe that that evening I was privileged to hear the first public rendering of "On the Circuit," of which that is the last line.”
Hitch-22 on September 1, 1939: “Auden's suggestive line in one of his greatest poems [“1 September 1939”]: And helpless governors wake / To resume their compulsory game…”