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What did Auden check out from the library?

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Four Weddings and a Funeral poem: “Funeral Blues” by W.H. Auden

The chart that W.H. Auden handed out to his students in his Swarthmore seminar “Romanticism from Rousseau to Hitler.”

The chart that W.H. Auden handed out to his students in his Swarthmore seminar “Romanticism from Rousseau to Hitler.”

(Source: swarthmore.edu)

Happy birthday/”utopian youth,” W. H. Auden.

Happy birthday/”utopian youth,” W. H. Auden.