Language, literature, and enrichment …

… Anecdotal Evidence: `All the Niceties of Melodious Speech'. (Hate, Dave Lull.)

I can’t speak to Auden’s state of mind but one can readily forgive his lapse in etiquette. It must have been a dreary event: On stage with Sexton were Pablo Neruda, Charles Olsen, Allen Ginsberg and Stephen Spender – world-class gasbags all.

True, but Spender, whom I met once, seemed not only nice, but rather humble.