This poet described hearing "the murmur of underground streams" when trying to "imagine a faultless love or the life to come" in a poem about the "one landscape that we, the inconstant ones, are consistently homesick for."
This poet described hearing "the murmur of underground streams" when trying to "imagine a faultless love or the life to come" in a poem about the "one landscape that we, the inconstant ones, are consistently homesick for." Another of this poet's landscapes includes a kind of scene that unfolds while others are "just walking dully along." That landscape includes an "expensive delicate ship," a (*) plowman who "may have heard the splash, the forsaken cry," and a pair of "white legs disappearing into the green water." That poem by this man opens with the observation "About suffering, they were never wrong, the Old Masters" and describes Breguel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. For 10 points, name this poet of "In Praise of Limestone" and "Musee des Beaux Arts."
This poet described hearing "the murmur of underground streams" when trying to "imagine a faultless love or the life to come" in a poem about the "one landscape that we, the inconstant ones, are consistently homesick for."
Wystan Hugh Auden