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Words and the Word (Sermon)
- Title
- Words and the Word (Sermon) : typescript with holograph revisions.
- Author
- Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973
- Publication
- circa 1965 October 24.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding aid
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Berg Coll 29967 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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- Description
- .1 linear feet ( 1 folder)
- Summary
- Typescript sermon (3 pages), with holograph revisions in ink, by the Anglo-American poet and writer W. H. Auden (1907-1973). Auden delivered this sermon during the Evensong service of October 24, 1965 at Christ Church, Oxford, at the invitation of College Chaplain John Gilling. Auden used the same title for one of four lectures given in memory of T. S. Eliot at the University of Kent, Canterbury, in October 1967. The sermon explores the nature of human speech as a reflection of Divine activity. The lecture incorporates some of the themes and text present in this sermon.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Sermons.
- Note
- The title "Words & the Word" is written in pencil in a different hand at top; the name W. H. Auden is written next to it in ink.
- A holograph revision in the typescript's final paragraph lacks the published quotation "The great advantage of the French language...."
- Access (note)
- Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Source (note)
- Purchased from Helena Kojevnikov, 2019.
- Publications (note)
- The sermon is published under the title "Words and the Word" in The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, ed. Edward Mendelson, vol. 5, Prose: 1963-1968 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015), 404-407. The delivery of the sermon is identified and dated in the editor's introduction to the work. The lecture by the same title is also found in vol. 5, pp. 308-324, part IV of Auden's T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, published together under the title "Secondary Worlds."
- Call Number
- Berg Coll 29967
- OCLC
- 1137175154
- Author
- Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973, creator.
- Title
- Words and the Word (Sermon) : typescript with holograph revisions.
- Production
- circa 1965 October 24.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- sheet
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Publications
- The sermon is published under the title "Words and the Word" in The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, ed. Edward Mendelson, vol. 5, Prose: 1963-1968 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015), 404-407. The delivery of the sermon is identified and dated in the editor's introduction to the work. The lecture by the same title is also found in vol. 5, pp. 308-324, part IV of Auden's T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, published together under the title "Secondary Worlds."
- Source
- Purchased from Helena Kojevnikov, 2019.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Authors.Poets.
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll 29967