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This gathering of friends to honour and remember Wystan Auden is not an occasion on which I should attempt to discuss either Wystan’s personality or his place in the history of English literature. It is, rather, one on which to recall his presence, and express our praise and gratitude for his life and work, in these surroundings where, intellectually and as a poet, his life may be said to have come full circle.
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© 1978 Stephen Spender
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Spender, S. (1978). W. H. Auden. In: The Thirties and After. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04237-1_24
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