"Still doing it by hand": Auden and the typewriter
W. H. Auden's writing practice remained the same across his life: he composed first drafts by hand, revised by hand, and only used a typewriter for typing up a late draft. By the 1950s, this was not merely a habit, it was also a medially conservative position. This chapter explores Auden's...
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| description | W. H. Auden's writing practice remained the same across his life: he composed first drafts by hand, revised by hand, and only used a typewriter for typing up a late draft. By the 1950s, this was not merely a habit, it was also a medially conservative position. This chapter explores Auden's commitment to hand-writing alongside the formal and aesthetic choices of his late poetry. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:9e5d0c78-3c9c-438c-8ea2-a806d004a4fe2022-03-27T00:49:39Z"Still doing it by hand": Auden and the typewriterBook sectionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843uuid:9e5d0c78-3c9c-438c-8ea2-a806d004a4feEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordPalgrave Macmillan2015Sullivan, HCostello, BGalvin, RW. H. Auden's writing practice remained the same across his life: he composed first drafts by hand, revised by hand, and only used a typewriter for typing up a late draft. By the 1950s, this was not merely a habit, it was also a medially conservative position. This chapter explores Auden's commitment to hand-writing alongside the formal and aesthetic choices of his late poetry. |
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