It was an experiment, and I think a successful one, in communal living. It worked largely because Auden ran it; he was exceptionally adept at getting the necessary money out of us when it was due.
He's very popular among his mates. I think I'm Auden, he thinks he'sYeats.
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.
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