![]() The film they saw was Sieg im Poland, a Nazi account of Hitler’s conquest of Poland. In November 1939, he and Christopher Isherwood, with whom he had immigrated, went to a cinema in Yorkville, the largely German-speaking district of Manhattan where they had recently taken up residence. Yet two months after writing these affirming lines, Auden’s faith in humanity was dealt a devastating blow from which it never recovered. Composed like all mankind “Of Eros and of dust, / Beleaguered by the same / Negation and despair,” he continued to “Show an affirming flame.” ![]() As a poet, he continued to assert his faith in man’s ability to save civilization from ruin. Auden (1907-1973) remained enchanted with all the old dogmas-psychology, Marxism, and liberal humanism-that had shaped so much of his early work. ![]() For several months after his 1939 immigration to the United States, W.H.
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