Auden can sometimes seem a bit overshadowed by his many illustrious contemporaries and peers, who included T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens. Yikes! Yet his poems are suffused with a warm intelligence and genial humanity, expressed in a voice wholly his own. For this course I’ll compile a brief representative selection of Auden’s poems to distribute in the first session.
Six weekly sessions, 1-3pm, starting Thursday 29 January. Here’s a PDF of the full scehdule and fee details: