This writer concluded that "History to the defeated / May say
This writer concluded that "History to the defeated / May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon" in a wartime poem that he later disavowed, titled "Spain." In another poem, he commemorates a day that a "few thousand" will think of "as one thinks of a day when one did something slightly unusual." That poem by him declares that "poetry makes nothing happen" and ends by urging its dedicatee to "teach the free man how to praise." Another of his poems refers to "what mad Nijinsky wrote / About Diaghilev," that he wanted "not universal love / But to be loved alone." This author of "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" also wrote about "how everything turns away / Quite leisurely from the disaster" in Brueghel's Icarus. For 10 points, name this English poet of "September 1, 1939" and "MusÃ©e des Beaux Arts."
This writer concluded that "History to the defeated / May say
Wystan Hugh Auden