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Horae Canonicaeis a series ofpoemsbyW. H. Audenwritten between 1949 and 1955. The title is a reference to thecanonical hoursof theChristian Church,as are the titles of the seven poems constituting the series: "Prime","Terce","Sext","Nones","Vespers","Compline",and"Lauds".Each refers to a fixed time of the day for prayer.

The canonical hours create a framework for the dramatization of Auden's religious position, which he described in a letter as "very much the same asReinhold [Neibuhr]'s,i.e.Augustinian,notThomist(I would allow a little more place, perhaps, for theVia Negativa.) Liturgically, I am Anglo-Catholic... ".^[1]

"Prime" and "Nones" were first published in Auden's collectionNones(1951).Horae Canonicaewas published as a unity in Auden'sThe Shield of Achilles(1955).

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^Curtis, Jan (1997). "W. H. Auden's Theology of History inHorae Canonicae:'Prime', 'Terce', and 'Sext'".Literature and Theology.11(1): 46–66.doi:10.1093/litthe/11.1.46.

v t e W. H. Auden
Books of poetry	Poems(1930) The Orators(1932) On This Island(1936) Another Time(1940) The Double Man(1941) For the Time Being(1944) The Age of Anxiety(1947) Nones(1951) The Shield of Achilles(1955) Homage to Clio(1960) About the House(1966) City Without Walls(1969) Academic Graffiti(1971) Epistle to a Godson(1972) Thank You, Fog(1974)
Books containing prose and verse	Letters from Iceland(1937) Journey to a War(1939)
Prose works and other books	The Enchafèd Flood(1950) The Dyer's Hand(1962) Secondary Worlds(1968) A Certain World(1970) Forewords and Afterwords(1973)
Individual poems	"The Orators"(1932) "Funeral Blues"(1936) "Spain"(1937) "Musée des Beaux Arts"(1938) "Refugee Blues"(1939) "September 1, 1939"(1939) "The Unknown Citizen"(1939) "Hymn to St Cecilia"(1940) "For the Time Being"(1944) "The Sea and the Mirror"(1944) "The Age of Anxiety"(1947) "In Praise of Limestone"(1948) "The Platonic Blow"(1948) "Horae Canonicae"(1949–55) "Bucolics"(1952–53) "The Shield of Achilles"(1955)
Plays	Paid on Both Sides(1928) The Dance of Death(1933) The Dog Beneath the Skin(1935) The Ascent of F6(1936) On the Frontier(1938) Play of Daniel(1958)
Libretti	Paul Bunyan(1941) The Rake's Progress(1951) Elegy for Young Lovers(1961) The Bassarids(1966) Love's Labour's Lost(1973)
Screenwriting	Night Mail(1936)
Family	George Augustus Auden(father) John Bicknell Auden(brother) Chester Kallman(companion)
Related	W. H. Auden bibliography
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