User talk:Macspaunday/Archive 2009

Anthony Hecht
Dear Macspaunday, I regret to say to someone I have learned to admire for his contributions, but I have undone your removal of the critical study The Hidden law by Anthony Hecht in the Auden article, because your qualification "undistinguished critical study" is clearly nonsense. Theobald Tiger (talk) 16:30, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Many other people clearly also admire that book, so I won't try to argue about its merits. Macspaunday (talk) 18:22, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I am not a scholar; I am a Dutch layman who is an admirer of Auden and who has translated some of his verse (English > Dutch). I can only say that in my opinion The Hidden Law is by far the best critical study written on Auden's verse. (W. H. Auden: A Commentary, by John Fuller is also very useful, of course.) Theobald Tiger (talk) 18:45, 23 May 2009 (UTC)