Volume 10, Number 3 · February 15, 1968
Doctor Auden
By Stuart Hampshire
Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957
by W.H. Auden
Random House, 351 pp., $7.50
It has sometimes been claimed that for several hundred years without interruption there has always been a major poet writing in the English language Perhaps there have been some dull decades, for which the word 'major' would need to be stretched a little, when the already established resources of the language were just being steadily mined, without any new discoveries being made. Mr. Auden began to publish in a decade that was very far from being poetically dull. He was almost immediately recognized as likely to prolong the necessary line into the future. We have now arrived at the future, Mr. Auden is still writing, and the continuity holds.
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