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Unread 09-22-2001, 03:32 PM
robert mezey robert mezey is offline
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A terrific poem, I agree. I don't know why Auden
didn't just change the one line he cited as being
objectionable and reprint it in subsequent volumes.
(He quite rightly faulted "We must love one another
or die"---the fact is, we must love one another
and die.) And yes, the elegy for Yeats is
good. But I'd argue that he wrote better poems,
or at least as good. I think his greatest elegy is
In Memory of Sigmund Freud. I'm not a great fan
of the good doctor, but the poem is superb. And
I can think of another twenty or so poems in a class
with those.
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