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.


Poetry in a Dry Season, p. 37 - Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)

Randall Jarrell Quotes

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

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

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

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