"Poetry makes nothing happen, " wrote WH Auden, and Mr Chiurai does not expect his own art to be any different.

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The archive, never seen in public before, includes a letter from WH Auden to Day-Lewis criticising one of the latter's poems.

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This year's National Theatre highlights include a new, as yet untitled, Alan Bennett play about a fictional meeting between composer Benjamin Britten and poet WH Auden.

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Summed up memorably by WH Auden in his verse Night Mail, cruelly misquoted above, the TPO made its first journey in 1838 from London to the Midlands.

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He said he had finished a play about the friendship between poet WH Auden and composer Benjamin Britten, with rehearsals due to start at the National Theatre in September.

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Some 20 years later, in the wake of the publication of the final part of the trilogy, The Return of the King, WH Auden wrote that the cycle surpassed Milton's Paradise Lost.

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