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The Marquis de Sade and Genet
Are most highly thought of to-day;
But torture and treachery
Are not my sort of lechery,
So I’ve given my copies away.
This Issue
May 12, 1966
W.H. Auden
W.H. Auden (1907–1973) was an English poet, playwright, and essayist. His poem in this issue will appear in Poems, 1940–1973, the second of the two final volumes in the Princeton University Press edition of The Complete Works of W.H. Auden.
This Issue
May 12, 1966
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