Having referenced W.H. Auden in my first post on this humble blog, I was a bit surprised to see him turn up in the news today. Granted, it's his centennial, so you expect the occasional commemoration or monument, but I wasn't remotely expecting anything like what actually showed up.
It seems that MI5 suspected Auden of helping arrange the escape of two of the "Cambridge spies" who defected to the Soviet Union in 1951. Nothing was proved, and the investigation was closed.
Clearly, poets lead far more interesting lives than I ever would have guessed.
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