Does a poet always have to be at boiling temperature? I think he was
still writing great poetry in "The shield of Achilles" - his later verse
is often interesting or amusing, which you cannot say of the later
Wordsworth, for instance. And Auden (with Kallman), like Hofmannsthal
when he had ceased writing poetry as such, wrote a couple of great
libretti after the war. I very much enjoy his commentary on *The
Tempest* too.
mj
Dominic Fox wrote:
>If he'd said "what the Auden might have become if he'd remained a good
>writer", I might have gone along with that. I think Auden went
>terribly off the boil.
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>Commemoration. Commemoration. What does it mean? What does it mean?
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>Dominic
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