A gobble poem : snatched from the notebooks of W.H. Auden & now believed to be in the Morgan Library / W.H. Auden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973, author.

Series:

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Erotic poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (5 pages).

Other Title:

Gobble poem

Platonic blow.

Place of Publication:

Fuck Books Unlimted

Notes:

"First English printing."

"Originally published in the United States by Fuck you / a magazine of the arts."

First published in the United States in 1965 under title: The Platonic blow.

Authorship without authority: Auden denies any association with the poem ; Mr. H. Cahoon, of the Pierpont Morgan Library, denies that the Library has the original manuscript, and no manuscript of the poem is known to exist. cf. Bloomfield & Mendelson. W. H. Auden. 2d ed., 1972. Appx. 2.

Edition limited to 210 copies which were issued in violet paper wrappers, lettered in green.

Reproduced from Typewriting on Cover: "The Gobble Poem" a Re-Arrangement of the Author's Earlier Poem Entitled "The Platonic Blow"; Although This Poem Has Been Attributed to Auden, He Has Denied Any Association with It. Cf. Bloomfield and Mendelson.

Bloomfield and Mendelson. Auden (2Nd Ed.) P. 366-368.

Reproduction of the originals from British Library.

OCLC:

1113879552