"These poems are laden with grief, but also, to my ears, carry a tremendous love and hope, without which, surely, there could be no endurance," writes critic Mandana Chaffa. With members across ...
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 ...
He had seen birthday cakes left out in the rain in the park, with sweet green icing flowing down ... In one of his most famous poems, "The More Loving One," Auden captures his philosophy on love and ...
The brief letter read: "Thank you for giving me such a good life and a good family. "I love you dad. "Adonis to Dad." In his song 'Champagne Poetry', the 38-year-old rapper brande ...