He also wrote about a man who "knew human folly like the back of his hand."
This man created one work which takes place as he is "[w]alking down Bristol Street," and in which he hears a young lover declare that "I'll love you / Till China and Africa meet." He also wrote about a man who "knew human folly like the back of his hand." In one of his poems, the title character is said to have "disappeared in the dead of winter," and "[t]he day of his death was a dark cold day." For 10 points, name this author of "As I Walked Out One Evening," "Epitaph on a Tyrant" and "In Memory of W. B. Yeats."
This man created one work which takes place as he is "[w]alking down Bristol Street," and in which he hears a young lover declare that "I'll love you / Till China and Africa meet."
Wystan Hugh Auden