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What Auden believed.(books by and about W. H. Auden)(Book review)
Mr. Matthew Arnold. To him, Miss Mary Augusta, his niece: "Why, Uncle Matthew, oh why, will not you be always wholly serious?
--Max Beerbohm, in a caption
But why do you take everything I say so seriously?--W. H. Auden to Stephen Spender
W. H. Auden collected hats, at least as a younger man (he subsequently renounced them). He had a workman's cap that he picked up in Berlin and later consigned to the fireplace after throwing up into it, a panama hat that leant him the air of a lunatic vicar (his impersonation of which always brought the house down), and a mortarboard for his more donnish moods. In his biography from 1979 of the poet, Charles ...
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