W. H. Auden Quote

To some degree every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.


"American Poetry", p. 367 - The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)


To some degree every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary...

To some degree every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary...

To some degree every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary...

To some degree every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary...