AUDEN WYSTAN HUGH Autograph Poem Signed WH Auden fair copy o

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AUDEN, WYSTAN HUGH. Autograph Poem Signed, "W.H. Auden," fair copy of his "Elegy for J.F.K.," 4 stanzas of three lines each, beginning "Why they? Why there? / Why thus, we cry, did he die? / The heavens are silent. . . ." 1 page, 8vo, "Whytes [Hotel]" stationery; his Austria address in holograph on verso. (TFC) [London], circa 1964

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Soon after the assassination of President Kennedy, Igor Stravinsky asked Auden to write a poem that he could set to music. Stravinsky performed his elegy with Auden's text in New York on the first anniversary of JFK's death.