The original version of a poem by this author notes that the fictional Ian Shawcross “will say a few words sad and kind.” In a poem by this author, the speaker notes that “all the dogs of Europe bark” before urging the subject to “sing of human unsuccess / in a rapture of distress.” For a co-written play about the climber Michael Ransom, this author wrote a poem whose speaker wishes for “crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves” and “traffic policemen” to wear “black cotton gloves.” The claim that “poetry makes nothing happen” appears in an elegy by this author about a man who died on a “dark cold day.” This author wrote, “he was my North, my South, my East and West” in a mournful poem beginning “stop all the clocks.” For 10 points, name this poet of “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” and “Funeral Blues.” ■END■
ANSWER: W. H. Auden [or Wystan Hugh Auden] (The play is The Ascent of F6, co-written with Christopher Isherwood.)
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