“Out of the air a voice without a face
Proved by statistics that some cause was just
In tones as dry and level as the place:
No one was cheered and nothing was discussed…”

— W. H. Auden , book The Shield of Achilles

The Shield of Achilles (1952)

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Anglo-American poet 1907–1973

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