How to Read W. H. Auden
Three poems about death, war, suffering, and other cheery 20th-century subjects by the Anglo-internationalist poet Wystan Hugh Auden: the elegy \u201cFuneral Blues,\u201d and the ekphrastic or descriptive poems \u201cMus\xe9e des Beaux Arts,\u201d and \u201cThe Shield of Achilles.\u201d