The hostess seated them at the booth immediately adjacent to ours. I was starstruck, more starstruck than I would be in later life meeting actual celebrities.
Later, Tabitha would put things together in a way that she could understand, regardless of the truth—how Henry could both want and fear a certain future.
It is sometimes difficult with poets, especially with Auden, to determine whether form or content demands his greater attention—though we begin with the fact that in the best poems they’re inextricable.