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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” (-5[1])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 (-5[1])poem beginning “stop all the clocks.” (10[2])For (10[1])10 points, (-5[1])name this poet of “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” and “Funeral Blues.” ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: W. H. Auden [or Wystan Hugh Auden] (The play is The Ascent of F6, co-written with Christopher Isherwood.)
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