Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Great Regulars: On another occasion [WH] Auden

said that he had only once encountered pure evil in a person, and that was when he met Yeats.

If this comes as a surprise, considering that the most famous tribute to Yeats on his death is Auden's elegy, you have to remember that for Auden there was always a case pro and con, as far as Yeats was concerned.

from James Fenton: The Guardian: A voice of his own

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