This author wrote that "the best and worst of us" were tempted by the "oceanic whisper" "I am the solitude that asks and promises nothing" in a poem about "the one landscape that we, the inconstant ones, are consistently homesick for."
One of this author's poems claims that "the poet" is made uneasy by "statues which so obviously doubt his antimythological myth." This author wrote that "the best and worst of us" were tempted by the "oceanic whisper" "I am the solitude that asks and promises nothing" in a poem about "the one landscape that we, the inconstant ones, are consistently homesick for." He modernized an example of classical ekphrasis in a poem whose title object depicts "an artificial wilderness and a sky like lead" instead of "marble well-governed cities and ships upon untamed seas." This author wrote a poem lamenting "Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood / For nothing now can ever come to any good," as well as the longer poems "In Praise of Limestone" and "The Shield of Achilles." For 10 points, name this English poet, who wrote "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" in his "Funeral Blues."
One of this author's poems claims that "the poet" is made uneasy by "statues which so obviously doubt his antimythological myth.
Wystan Hugh Auden