ABSTRACT
Auden does not fit. Auden is no gentleman. Auden does not write, or exist, by any of the codes, by the Bloomsbury rules, by the Hampstead rules, by the Oxford, the Cambridge, or the Russell Square rules. Auden writes about boys at school. Auden bites his nails. Auden uses rhymes. Auden uses any kind of form. Auden does not dislike A.E. Housman. Auden resembles Kipling more than he resembles William Carlos Williams. Auden prefers Daumier to Mondrian. Auden would sooner read the Laxdoela saga than ’The Waves.’ And so on.
