52 WEEKS::The More Loving One

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.

~ W.H. Auden, The More Loving One

Between 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face.  Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from the mandarin to the invigoratingly plain-spoken.  Just another reminder of his exhilarating lyric power and his understanding of love and longing in all their sacred and profane guises.