'While we were in a train going along beside the north shore of the Clyde we noticed another train moving in the same direction beside the south shore, and the whitened smoke trailing back over its carriages from the funnel of its engine had a lumpy look which made Auden compare it to faeces and which was to suggest to him later an image - 'the train's white excreta' - that he used in one of his poems. On this same journey I discovered in the gossip column of a newspaper I had with me the words 'Awareness of Auden'.This was all the columnist said about him, and it pleased him all the more for being ambiguous. 'Do you think it means that Auden has awareness,' he asked me, 'or that people are becoming aware of Auden?' 'It means both,' I suggested.' This beautiful letter-press printed book is printed on Hambledon cream antique paper by Peter Lloyd at The Holbeche Press, Rugby. The wrapper is a Curwen pattern paper, designed by Enid Marx c.1926. The edition is limited to two-hundred numbered copies, signed by Edward Upward.
- ISBN13 9781900564809
- Publish Date 6 April 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 April 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Enitharmon Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 14
- Language English