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What does /lit/ think of W. H. Auden and his Poems? Anonymous Wed Jul 26 06:43:18 2017 No.9807199 [Reply] [Original]

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 26 06:47:45 2017 No.9807206 >>9807199 loved it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 26 06:50:53 2017 No.9807210 >>9807199 Musée des Beaux Arts is absolutely amazing

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 26 06:55:31 2017 No.9807217 the only book i liked from him.

>>	newfag !!COMtEGEdZ3K Wed Jul 26 07:07:58 2017 No.9807239 I never really liked them after I got into modernist poetry. I would rather listen to some Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen albums than read him.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 26 14:57:27 2017 No.9808695 >>9807199 I like especially some of the longer poems. I enjoyed reading through The Dyer's Hand (criticism, reviews) as well.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 26 15:03:13 2017 No.9808726 >>9807199 Superior to Pound, Eliot, and all the other modernists. Almost singlehandedly preserved formal poetry against the disease of free verse. Don't care for his early left-wing propagandistic bent or his "erotic" poems. One of the greats.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 26 15:46:59 2017 No.9808909 >>9808726 lol. i don't like your style but i like the force and irony of your declaration

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 26 15:56:28 2017 No.9808956 What did he do for $$? I love him, btw.