![]() ![]() It all seems extremely portentous and strained, but then Auden was only 21 when he wrote it. It's a shame then that the Collected Poems begins with "Paid on Both Sides", Auden's 1928 show-off play, which is a kind of revenge tragedy featuring dream sequences, soliloquies, a Chorus, Father Christmas, and characters called Bo, Po, and "The Man-Woman". ![]() In the year of the centenary of Auden's birth, and with the publication of the new Collected Poems, readers should perhaps try to overcome irrational prejudice or excitement, and take a long hard look at the evidence.Įdward Mendelson, Auden's literary executor, has added a new "note" to his earlier preface, which sets out to reposition Auden not as a heartless brainbox, but as the great 20th-century poet of love. ![]()
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