Things Worth Remembering: W.H. Auden’s Poetry

It might have been 40 years ago. I was walking by a church in Manhattan and noticed a sign on the door indicating that Auden, WH Auden, one of the greatest English language poets of the 20th century, was reading his poetry inside. I walked in, not knowing what to expect, and there he was, looking just a professorial as I had imagined. He was at a lectern, reading, reading beautifully, one of the poems mentioned here.