Exhibit Map
Entrance
Introduction
Introduction to the exhibit and background information
In the classroom
Auden as a professor (1942-1945)
Question-and-answer session with visiting professor Brendan Kennelly's class (1971)
- PDF of transcript (from the May 1972 College Bulletin)
- Q & A, part one
- Q & A, part two
- Q & A, part three
- Q & A, part four
- Q & A, part five
- Q & A, part six
In the library
Auden's use and abuse of library books
On campus
Relations with the Swarthmore campus and surrounding town
Production of Ascent of F6 in spring 1945
Auden's honorary degree (1964)
Auden in the college newspaper
- Archive of Phoenix articles written by or about Auden (1940-1971)
- PDF of "Auden Calls 'Night' Fun But Not Art"
- PDF of "Student Government - Or Bombs?"
- PDF of "Foghorn Bellow, Sly Bitchery Spark Shakespeare's Worst Play"
Notebook
Letter donating a manuscript notebook to the library (1966)
Etc.
Collection provenance, acknowledgments, bibliography and suggestions for further reading
- PDF of "W.H. Auden at Swarthmore" by Monroe Spears (from the March 1962 College Bulletin)
- Quotation sources