Collected Longer Poems

W H Auden

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Review

“Tonight a scrambling decade ends,

And strangers, enemies and friends

Stand once more puzzled underneath

The signpost on the barren heath...”

All the lunacy and crassness of the Dome made me unwilling to find anything interesting about the Millennium at all.  But some weeks into 2000 I looked up the wonderful poem in this volume, ‘New Year Letter (January 1, 1940)’, and how glad I am that I did so!  It is wonderfully rich and wise, and so very much more valuable than the Dome.  From now on, I think I shall read it on January 1st every year. - review by Johnny de Falbe

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