Great Regulars: [W.H. Auden] included in his poetry

every sort of thing that attracted his eye, every sort of word or speech he heard or read. He devised a tone, a feeling of wry, informed and doom-ridden attentiveness, as seen here:

The Fall of Rome

(for Cyril Connolly)

from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice

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