ABSTRACT
‘Since the publication of ‘Poems’ in 1930, which immediately marked the author as a leader of a new school of poetry that has since established itself…’ Mr. Auden (one may go on, while questioning whether a school that springs up as immediately as the publisher reports is properly to be described as a ‘school of poetry’) has certainly been a significant and representative figure, a figure to watch. One has watched him for signs of development. His talent was indubitable; one has waited for him to begin to do something with it. Those who open ‘Look, Stranger!’ in hope will be once again disappointed – which doesn’t make him the less significant and representative.
