The characteristic poetic strategy of our time — refine your singularities — is something Auden has not learned; so his best poems are very peculiarl… - Randall Jarrell

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The characteristic poetic strategy of our time — refine your singularities — is something Auden has not learned; so his best poems are very peculiarly good, nearly the most interesting poems of our time. When he writes badly, we can afford to be angry at him, and he can afford to laugh at us.