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Originally Posted by Aaron Novick
One day someone will explain to me what there is to enjoy in Auden. (There are a few I enjoy. But reading his selected poems was a pretty dull trudge for me.)
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That's the Auden I have, not that it matters.
I think he's one of the greatest poets born in C20. I think he became far too worried about revising his earlier poems to accord with his conservative views in later life. Edited in: I rummaged up the book, and the editor Edward Mendelson says in the intro that his selections use the versions from earlier collections and also items that Auden rejected later in life.
We definitely need a thread on Auden.