<a href='https://poets.org/poem/september-1-1939'>Today's poem </a>is a dense and complex work written at the beginning of WWII. Composed of 99 lines, it addresses the bleakness of war and violence, ancient and modern, and responds to the threat of annihilation through an eerily tidy structure.
A poem that Auden would try (and fail) to revise, describing it as "infected with an incurable dishonesty", it nonetheless continues to resonate 85 years later.

Today's poem is a dense and complex work written at the beginning of WWII. Composed of 99 lines, it addresses the bleakness of war and violence, ancient and modern, and responds to the threat of annihilation through an eerily tidy structure. A poem that Auden would try (and fail) to revise, describing it as "infected with an incurable dishonesty", it nonetheless continues to resonate 85 years later.

<a href="https://poets.org/poem/september-1-1939" rel="noopener noreferrer">Today's poem </a>is a dense and complex work written at the beginning of WWII. Composed of 99 lines, it addresses the bleakness of war and violence, ancient and modern, and responds to the threat of annihilation through an eerily tidy structure.
A poem that Auden would try (and fail) to revise, describing it as "infected with an incurable dishonesty", it nonetheless continues to resonate 85 years later.&nbsp;

S2 Ep 2: September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden

Short readings of interesting poems and prose, read by Bill Ricquier. 
To request a reading, contact Bill at: billpavilionend.com/contact/

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Short readings of interesting poems and prose, read by Bill Ricquier. To request a reading, contact Bill at: billpavilionend.com/contact/

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S2 Ep 2: September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden

S2 Ep 2: September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden