http://sherrychandler.com/2007/09/01/memorizing/ "On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.” — W.S. Merwin Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:11:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://sherrychandler.com/2007/09/01/memorizing/comment-page-1/#comment-34609 Sherry Chandler » Musée des Beaux Arts Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:52:47 +0000 http://sherrychandler.com/?p=2253#comment-34609 [...] What did I notice in my week of close regard for W. H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts”? (Full text here) The poem has a modified sonnet structure. This fact has been pointed out. Although it’s an important nicety that a number of online reproductions of the poem skip, it’s printed in two verse paragraphs in both my old Norton’s Anthology and my copy of Selected Poetry of W. H. Auden (Modern Library, 1959). (Sold for $2.95 according to the dust cover.) You can see from the accompanying autograph from the Library of Congress, Auden himself meant the poem to have two paragraphs. (Click image for full-sized version.) [...] [...] What did I notice in my week of close regard for W. H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts”? (Full text here) The poem has a modified sonnet structure. This fact has been pointed out. Although it’s an important nicety that a number of online reproductions of the poem skip, it’s printed in two verse paragraphs in both my old Norton’s Anthology and my copy of Selected Poetry of W. H. Auden (Modern Library, 1959). (Sold for $2.95 according to the dust cover.) You can see from the accompanying autograph from the Library of Congress, Auden himself meant the poem to have two paragraphs. (Click image for full-sized version.) [...]

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