W.H. Auden and G.K. Chesterton: Some Points of Agreement

Left: W.H. Auden (image copyright 1956, George Cserna) | Right: G.K. Chesterton (public domain image) Anglo-American poet Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-73) helped to reinvigorate English poetry in the middle decades of the 20th century. His poems included contemporary images: infiltrating spies, civil strife, vestiges of industries once vibrant but now obsolete, the prevalence of electricity and…