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I love Auden's poetry. I don't know any 20th century English poet who produced better verse than he did. And Melvyn, dear, why bring up that so old -- decades old -- row about Auden and Isherwood staying in America during the war? Who the hell cares? In 1940, Auden was 33 and Isherwood 36 -- hardly in their prime battlefield years. Should they have come back to London and written telegraphs for the Foreign Office? Come up out of the trenches, Melvyn; the war is over. Besides, England didn't really treat its gay war heroes all that well, did it? I mean, look what it did to Alan Turing, who practically saved the island single handedly. The way Bragg sets up the narrative of this documentary is really mendacious.
