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From First Things: Auden and the Limits of Poetry
First Things has published an amazing and wonderful essay by Alan Jacbos called “Auden and the Limits of Poetry” which, being limited, discovers its immense value. Excerpt: Auden uses poetry to remind us of what poetry can never give us. But, in the end, this assigns poetry a genuine and important role, as it points …
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Poem of the Week: The Shield of Achilles
The Shield of Achilles by WH Auden She looked over his shoulder For vines and olive trees, Marble well-governed cities And ships upon untamed seas, But there on the shining metal His hands had put instead An artificial wilderness And a sky like lead. A plain without a feature, bare and brown, No blade of …