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One of this author's speakers declares that he is composed of "Eros and dust" and wishes, like "ironic points of light", to "show an affirming flame." This author imagined "dogs [going] on with their doggy life" in a poem that recalls "how everything turns away/quite leisurely from the disaster." In another poem, this author rhetorically asked, "Was he free? Was he (*) happy?", noting "Had anything been wrong, we certainly would have heard." He collaborated on several plays with lover Christopher Isherwood. This poet described Breughel's Icarus in "Musée des Beaux Arts." For 10 points, name this British poet of "September 1, 1939."
One of this author's speakers declares that he is composed of "Eros and dust" and wishes, like "ironic points of light", to "show an affirming flame.
WH Auden [or Wystan Hugh Auden]