Richard Davenporthines

A haze of artifice

Auden said: ‘The ideal audience the poet imagines consists of the beautiful who go to bed with him, the powerful who invite him to dinner and tell him secrets of state, and his fellow-poets.

issue 25 June 2011

  • The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

    by W.H. Auden, edited by Alan Jacobs

    Princeton University Press, pp. 200

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