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This poet addressed the line “Nights of insult let you pass / Watched by every human love” to a lover who is told, “Rest your sleeping head, my love, / Human on my faithless arm.” In one work by this poet, a narrator “looking up at the stars” resolves, “If equal affection cannot be, (20[2])/ Let the more loving one (20[1])be me.” (20[2])This poet of “Lullaby” described people made “of Eros and of dust” (20[3])who are (0[1])“children afraid of the night.” (20[2]0[1])In one work, this poet (20[1])orders (20[1])(*) “prevent the dog from barking with a (10[1])juicy bone” (10[2])and (10[1])“stop all the clocks, (10[5])cut (10[1])off (10[2])the (10[1])telephone.” (10[2])This poet proclaimed “We must love one another or die” in a poem (0[1])set on the outbreak of World War II. For 10 points, (10[1])name this poet (0[1])of “Funeral Blues” (0[1])and “September 1, (10[2])1939.” ■END■ (10[1]0[3])

ANSWER: W. H. Auden [or Wystan Hugh Auden]
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