Tuesday, September 16, 2008

News at Eleven: Fortunately his writing does not seem to

have been the platform for the display of "personality" in the way which is now widespread, for while [W. H.] Auden's literary personality is everywhere apparent, it is always for something more than itself. It is hard nowadays to name a single author who can demonstrate the same breadth of competence or wield the same authority as Auden in his time, or who can make serious matters look like the natural occupation of the intelligent general reader.

from The Times Literary Supplement: Auden not our contemporary

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