Aubade

Aubade rhymes with "sérénade" and makes me think of "troubadours" singing 'a dawn serenade '- to the woman they love!

aubade - French Word-A-Day 2010

Aubade rhymes with "sérénade" and makes me think of "troubadours" singing 'a dawn serenade' - to the woman they love!

aubade - French Word-A-Day 2010

Yes, Johnson is interested in the poetry of praise, but also the sheer gymnastics of language as we see from this excerpt from "Aubade"

Strange Bedfellows Lemon Hound 2009

The end of Philip Larkin's great and gloomy poem 'Aubade' is anachronistic, but in the happiest sense.

Sons and Brothers Bayley, John 1994

ITN Corporation presents the 'Aubade' album, a comprehensive collection of recordings made by In The Nursery during their first years, the period between 1983 and 1985.

Side-Line news feed 2010

Any of his readers would realize as much, since diffidence, hesitation or indecision are crucial to his poetry - most explicitly and hauntingly in "Aubade", which achieves an appalled, literal clarity about the way death, "the sure extinction that we travel to / And shall be lost in always", for those who live in terror of it "slows each impulse down to indecision".

Top stories from Times Online 2010

ITN Corporation presents the 'Aubade' album, a comprehensive collection of recordings made by In The Nursery during their first years, the period between 1983 and 1985.

Side-Line news feed 2010

"Postmen like doctors go from house to house", goes the last line of "Aubade", Philip

Top stories from Times Online 2010

ITN Corporation presents the 'Aubade' album, a comprehensive collection of recordings made by In The Nursery during their first years, the period between 1983 and 1985.

Side-Line news feed 2010

ITN Corporation presents the 'Aubade' album, a comprehensive collection of recordings made by In The Nursery during their first years, the period between 1983 and 1985.

Side-Line news feed 2010