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A bit of judicious skipping is recommended, if you want to maintain an appetite for the juicier contents, such as his naughty characterisation of Eliot: "Like most important writers, Mr T S Eliot is not a single figure but a household" - made up, Auden continues, of a precise and pedantic archdeacon, a mad old peasant woman who has seen rape, murder, famine and plague at first hand, and a schoolboy who likes to hand out exploding cigars.
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Endless Curiosity
Endless curiosity W H Auden: Prose, Volume III (1949-1955) Edited by Edward Mendelson Faber & Faber, 779pp, £40
To adapt one of the poet's own ways of classifyingpersons and things and, indeed, God Himself: W H Auden could be terribly boring, but he was absolut...See the full content of this document
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