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“... itself Supertramp in homage to his autobiography. But present-day readers seem to feel much as Auden did, when he took up Davies for a few weeks as a schoolboy, ‘without finding what I really wanted’. The copy of Later Days I looked at in the London Library (most of his works now being out of print) is full of exasperated marginalia ...”

“... Reid and others. Certainly the romantic rhetoric that is second nature to Larkin, as to Auden, Yeats and Eliot, has no place in their poetic repertoire. It once seemed so ‘natural’, but beside their literariness and air of non-communication it now seems impossibly old-fashioned. It is difficult, of course, to be positive about these ...”

“... bohemians, English literary modernism didn’t weather all that well. With the arrival of Auden, Isherwood, Orwell and others, realism was soon back in the saddle, and it is this history that accounts in part for the marginalising of the movement that is so striking in Taylor’s study. Extraordinarily, he seems to think that Ronald Firbank was a ...”

“... too. It is now not only our poem, but the poem of Keats, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats, Eliot, Auden. Only Robert Graves and Laura Riding saw through it; but to return with them to the Shakespeare of Donne and Marvell is to abolish the Shakespeare of Keats and Yeats. Malone’s edition, of course, had a more problematic consequence for Shakespeare: it had ...”