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Nones, by W. H. Auden. Eighty-one pages of assertions, most of them witty, by a major modern poet turned devout (TIME, April...
Nones, by W. H. Auden. Eighty-one pages of assertions, most of them witty, by a major modern poet turned devout (TIME, April...
...citizen, an Anglo-Catholic, an earnest and pedantic scholar, Auden has become a kind of younger opposite number to T. S. Eliot. Like Eliot, he has lost the sympathy of many former admirers in his native land, who consider his expatriation and his orthodoxy a humdrum comedown for a promising poet...
...spite of this loss in intelligentsia popularity, Auden continues to be a clever fellow, even on the side of the respectable angels. His latest book of verse, Nones (the title refers to the ninth hour-3 p.m. -of the monastic day, and means "mid-afternoon"), shows that he can write to order, in satirical vein, more brilliantly than anyone since Byron...
...Auden is more than a lively idea-man now. Inquisitive as ever, and incorrigibly witty, he is also devoutly wishful to be maturely wise. Thus he adjures his five senses...