This man, who collaborated with Chester Kallman on the libretto for Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, claimed that "I and the public know" that "Those to whom evil is done/ Do evil in return"in a poem whose speaker sits "in one of the (*) dives on Fifty-second Street".
This poet wrote about a woman who is disappointed when she doesn't find "marble well-governed cities" and "athletes at their games" among the scenes forges into a poem's title object. This man, who collaborated with Chester Kallman on the libretto for Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, claimed that "I and the public know" that "Those to whom evil is done/ Do evil in return"in a poem whose speaker sits "in one of the (*) dives on Fifty-second Street". Another of his poems laments "I though that love would last forever: I was wrong" in describing a man whose death prompts the instruction "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone". For 10 points, name this Anglo-American poet of the "The Shield of Achilles", "Funeral Blues" and "September 1, 1939".
This poet wrote about a woman who is disappointed when she doesn't find "marble well-governed cities" and "athletes at their games" among the scenes forges into a poem's title object.
W.H. Auden [or Wystan Hugh Auden] 