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...passionate formist." Auden objects to "the lack of intrinsic form in modern poetry." His poems all carefully adhere to intricate metrical patterns. "Everyone who plays a game knows that he has to go by the rules." he said. "I have never written freeverse, and I don't think it would be any fun." Remarkably versatile-he has written sonnets, eclogues, plays, sermons, librettos, love poems, war poems, comic poems-he believes that "if one thinks one has learned how to do one sort of thing one has to change to something else." As for different genres of writing...
GENERATION. "Do-it-yourself" is the operative philosophy of a resolutely anticon-formist young couple in a Greenwich Village loft. They even plan to deliver their own baby-until Father-in-law Henry Fonda flies in from Chicago, thwarts their plans and charms the audience...
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