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One of W. H. Auden’s most famous poems is “September 1, 1939,” which you likely remember from its well-known denomination of the 1930s as “a low dishonest decade” and its soaring admonition: “We must love one another or die.” (This poem—and that line in particular—is luminously glossed by Spencer Lenfield at the JHI Blog here.) Auden hated that poem, however: he called it “the most dishonest poem I have ever written” and carried his recantation into the curation of his works—it does not appear (by his wish) in his Collected Poems online pharmacy neurontin no prescription with best prices today Read more