News at Eleven: They were almost comically unlikely

to get results, and not just because [W.H.] Auden was seven years older than [Benjamin] Britten, then in his early 20s. But his obsession with leading Britten into bed did result in a series of poetic masterpieces. The lyric "Underneath the abject willow", from March 1936, is addressed to Britten: "Walk then, come/No longer numb/Into your satisfaction."

from The Guardian: 'Love's a little boy'

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