W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden

Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot , among many others, were American-born writers who emigrated to Europe and spent much of their adult lives in

In Memory of W. B. Yeats

by W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907–73)

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He disappeared in the dead of winter:

The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted,

And snow disfigured the public statues;

The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.

O all the instruments agree

The day of his death was a dark cold day.

 Far from his illness 
 The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, 
 The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; 

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Question:

Which of William Blake's poems has become the unofficial anthem of the United Kingdom?

Answer

"And did those feet in ancient time" from the preface to "Milton: a Poem." This became, in 1916, the hymn titled "Jerusalem." It was famously featured in the movie Chariots of Fire , whose title comes from the same poem.

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