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

Author: Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973
Published: London : Fuck Books Unlimted, 1967.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (5 pages).

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

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Erotic poetry

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Platonic blow

Note

"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.

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