Back in 2008, Michael Braziller invited me to give a talk on W. H. Auden at the Philoctetes Society. They made a tape of the proceedings, and here it is. Among the poems we talk about are “September 1, 1939.” Every year without fail I think of that poem on the first day of the ninth month. For my 1977 review in Poetry of Auden’s Collected Poems, click here. — DL
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Author: The Best American Poetry
