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W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden

Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot , among many others, were American-born writers who emigrated to Europe and spent much of their adult lives in

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by W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907–73)

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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,

Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,

Silence the pianos and with muffled drum

Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead

Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,

Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,

Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

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To whom was Arthur Rimbaud's letter, which contained the famous words "Je est un autre" ("I is an other"), addressed?

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French professor George Alphonse Fleury Izambard received Rimbaud's famous letter in 1871. A year earlier he had given Rimbaud a copy of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables .

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