• One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.

    Clive James: One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.
    Clive James (2014). “Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014”, p.130, Pan Macmillan