Top Highlights

• Some of Auden's most original poetry appeared in the early 1930s.
• All sin tends to be addictive,
• the process by which man transforms himself from one kind of man, living in one kind of society, with one way of looking at the world, into another kind of man, another society, another conception of life.
• Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
• Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money,