Stop All the Clocks : Poems of Love and Loss, W.H. Auden

Stop All the Clocks : Poems of Love and Loss, W.H. AudenNew Hardback Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone . . . W. H. Auden was the consummate poet of love and heartbreak. Stop All the Clocks presents a selection of his best known, most lucid poems, poems that pitch human frailty against a persisting desire for love and belonging. Here are the anxieties that beset our waking and sleeping hours: the delirium of desire, the torture of unrequited love, the

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