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W.H. Auden's Praise of Pascal

W.H. Auden's Praise of Pascal

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Reading the writings and hearing the talk of the wiser ones, it sometimes happens that you notice certain books or authors positively cited over and over, and the quotes always strike and intrigue you—that’s been the case for myself with the poet W.H. Auden. I always liked the few poems of his I had read, likely in the Norton anthology, but repeated ex…

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