Louise Bogan on the Conviction And Charity of a Good Play, ‘New Republic'

Louise Bogan (1897–1970) seems to have been encouraged to appreciate Auden by Edmund Wilson, who wrote to her on 12 December 1933:

Auden seems to me really good. I think you said you’d read his poems and didn’t think very highly of them; but ‘The Orators’ and ‘The Dance of Death’ are more interesting…. Why don’t you write a confession d’un emfant du siècle? – maybe Auden’s ‘Orators’ would give you a cue. (‘Letters on Literature and Politics 1912–1972’, ed. Elena Wilson, 1977, p. 234)