On Fifty-Second Street" where the narrator thinks of the "darkened lands of the earth" where "the unmentionable odour of death" lingers.
A poem by this man references "Ode on a Grecian Urn" with "Libation and sacrifice" before going on to talk of an "Iron-hearted man-slaying" person "who would not live long". Another of his poems says how the Old Masters "never forget / That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course." This poet of "The Shield of Achilles" wrote a poem set "in one of the dives / On Fifty-Second Street" where the narrator thinks of the "darkened lands of the earth" where "the unmentionable odour of death" lingers. Name this author of "The Age of Anxiety", "September 1, 1939", and "MusÃ©e des Beaux Arts" [moo-zay day boh-zart].
A poem by this man references "Ode on a Grecian Urn" with "Libation and sacrifice" before going on to talk of an "Iron-hearted man-slaying" person "who would not live long".
W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden