Why Auden thought poets must always ‘side with the enemy’
Nicholas Jenkins’s The Island offers a reassessment of WH Auden’s early life – but fails to give any insight into his composition process
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Nicholas Jenkins’s The Island offers a reassessment of WH Auden’s early life – but fails to give any insight into his composition process
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