Preface
Published in The Atlantic in 1944
by W. H. Auden
Feb 21, 2024
1 minute
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Illustrations by Miki Lowe
For much of his career, the poet W. H. Auden was known for writing fiercely political work. He critiqued capitalism, warned of fascism, and documented hunger, protest, war. He was deeply influenced by Marxism.,” preachy and inauthentic—and he doubted how much it really mattered anyway. “Poetry makes nothing happen,” he once famously said.
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