In December 1938, on a visit to Brussels, W.H. Auden went to the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, which furnished the inspiration for this poem, published in 1940. It was a tense time in ...
A friend tells me he spent three weeks in college cleaning dorms to earn enough money to travel to Europe. Once he got there, he traveled to Belgium by train to see the painting that inspired this, ...
“A great book reads you,” W. H. Auden once wrote, meaning that you grasp the depths of a profound work of literary art the more you deepen your own sense of life. But a great work of art can also ...
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