Read it.
I met Auden in early 1960s when he visited Pasadena City College and I was his student host. What I remember most is how many martinis he drank -- and yet, seemingly drunk, sobered up for long enough to give a wonderful reading, then started drinking again.
I also remember a class in which I discovered none of my students had read him (most had never heard of him), including graduate English majors. Shameful.
I met Auden in early 1960s when he visited Pasadena City College and I was his student host. What I remember most is how many martinis he drank -- and yet, seemingly drunk, sobered up for long enough to give a wonderful reading, then started drinking again.
I also remember a class in which I discovered none of my students had read him (most had never heard of him), including graduate English majors. Shameful.
10 Classic W. H. Auden Poems Everyone Should Read
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