In Memory of W. B. Yeats

Wystan Hugh Auden

22 pages 44-minute read

Wystan Hugh Auden

In Memory of W. B. Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1939

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The winter of 1939 marked the end of one poetic era and the reflection of another, as W. H. Auden crafted his unconventional elegy for W. B. Yeats. Test your understanding of this complex meditation on poetry, mortality, and the artist's role in troubled times.

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