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...capacity crowd overflowed the institute of Geographical Exploration's large lecture room and was forced to move to the New Lecture Hall last night to hear W. H. Auden deliver the last in the University's series of lectures marking the fourth centenary of the birth of Miguel Cervautes...
...Auden's lecture, entitled "The Ironic Here," dealt with the problems facing Cervautes when he portrayed, in "Dau Quixote," a truly Christian here in the epic tradition. Auden, recently described by one critic as "the most intelligent poet writing in English today," approached the subject in the manner of a creative artist, not by critical analysis...
Wystan Hugh Auden, British poet, writer, and anthologist, will give the twelfth and last lecture of the Cervantes IV Centenary Series at 8 o'clock this evening in the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
...Auden, who will discuss "The Ironic Hero," is the last speaker in a symposium which has included novelist Ralph Bates, musicologist Adololfo Salazar, and Harry Levin '33, associate professor of English...
When the selections are taken as individual units, they flounder-the poetry worst of all. Most of the British poets here anthologized seem cowed by the fashions of up-to-the-minute taste. Either they are still unrecovered from their burns from the Auden-Spender firecracker of the '30s (Marx, Freud, Oxford, pathos and wisecracks), or they have slumped into a pale, desiccated romanticism ("Sleep, my love, now love is over. . . . Tender about you, my arms will cover...