"Rickard A. Parker" wrote:
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> Marcia Karp wrote:
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> > Rickard A. Parker wrote:
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> > >Scanned in:
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> > >And, W. H. Auden, a brilliant poet whose literary corpus ...
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> > >
> > >
> >  From where?
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> I was at home.

I would like to interpret this as a joke -- it certainly made me
chuckle. But telegraphic style in e-mail, with its flattening of tone,
always leaves one uncertain.

I presume Marcia wanted to know the book you scanned from???

That does make a difference in the case of Auden (and I found out just
the other day, it makes a bigger difference than I had assumed in
Moore's Collected Poems [1951] and _Complete Poems_ [1981]). I have the
1945 Collected Poetry of Auden, and I was jolted when I discovered that
his "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" was so different in the Norton Anthology.
He butchered the poem by leaving out two wonderful stanzas.

Carrol