This author meets with a 
This author meets with a composer in Caliban's Day, a fictional play which is rehearsed by the main characters of Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art. He said of the stars that "for all they care, I can go to hell" in a poem in which he resolves that "if equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me." This author frequently collaborated with Chester Kallman. He worked on the libretti for operas like The Bassarids, The(*) Rake's Progress, and Paul Bunyan. He wrote about a man who "knew folly like the back of his hand" in a poem ending "and when he cried the little children died in the streets." This author of "Epitaph on a Tyrant" wrote a poem whose speaker sits in "one of the dives on Fifty-second Street" and concludes "We must love one another or die." For 10 points, name this author of "September 1, 1939."
This author meets with a composer in Caliban's Day, a fictional play which is rehearsed by the main characters of Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art.
Wystan Hugh Auden