1. Philip Larkin, “What Has Become of Wystan?”, in Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955–1982 (Faber, 1983 ).
2. See Humphrey Carpenter, W. H. Auden: A Biography (Allen and Unwin, 1981), p. 85.
3. Terry Eagleton, The Ideology of the Aesthetic (Blackwell, 1990), p. 385.
4. Stan Smith, W. H. Auden (Blackwell, 1985 ), p. 158.