I liked these poems very much! I can see his influence on Plath profoundly, her right grasp on phonetics & use of repetitions and rhymes owes a lot to Auden’s style and endears him to me as a consequence. I was surprised at how unapologetically queer these poems were, it hardly even seemed a subtext, and that did make me rejoice. I hope to read more by Auden, his poems feel alive and vital, with awareness of life’s pain, without being consumed by it, and I think at times we all need a sparkling poet like that to revive us; and of course he would be a friend of my darling, Christopher Isherwood.