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Funeral Blues Christopher Isherwood. The 1938 version was written to be sung by the soprano Hedli Anderson in a setting by Benjamin Britten. This version was first published in the anthology "The Year's Poetry, 1938", compiled by Denys Kilham Roberts and Geoffrey Grigson (London, 1938). Auden then included it in his book "Another Time" (New York, 1940) as one of four poems headed "Four Cabaret Songs for Miss Hedli Anderson"; the poem itself was titled "Funeral Blues" in this edition. (Auden never gave the poem any other title.) The text in the British edition of "Another Time" has a misprint, showing "woods"