Worthy of Our Mystery
On Burnout and Ennui
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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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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
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