certain worlds

One of the delights in teaching a course all about Auden: reading and rereading Auden’s late prose. The poetry, as everyone knows, gets uneven, though I think some of the last poems as sharp as they are sad: but how many people know, and how many should know, about the fun you can have by opening, to a random page, A Certain World?

I’m at the Columbia University Press blog today, connecting Nathan’s recent activities in the field of visual art to the letters of John Keats. No, they are related.

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