Auden's weathered face and poetry teach us that a life marked by honesty, vulnerability, and love--no matter how imperfect or unrequited--is a life directed by the heart's invisible furies. --––––v––– ...
W.H. Auden was, in the final decade of his life, an extraordinarily unattractive man, and was keenly aware of it. "My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain," he told an interviewer in ...