Throughout April, as a celebration of National Poetry Month, we're highlighting the work of Richard Wilbur, the former national poet laureate who turned 90 earlier this year. Today's selection is "For W. H. Auden," which first appeared in the October 1979 issue of The Atlantic.
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Eleanor Barkhorn is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic, where she oversees the Sexes channel. A former teacher with Teach for America, she used to edit the Entertainment channel. More
She is a former producer for the Food channel. Before coming to The Atlantic, she was a reporter at the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Mississippi. She graduated from Princeton University, where she majored in American literature and wrote her senior thesis about Oprah's Book Club. For her first two years out of college, she taught high school English with the Teach For America program.
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