September has come, it is hers Whose vitality leaps in the autumn, Whose nature prefers Trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace. So I give her this month and the next Though the whole of my year should be hers who has rendered already So many of its days intolerable or perplexed But so many more so happy. Who has left a scent on my life, and left my walls Dancing over and over with her shadow Whose hair is twined in all my waterfalls And all of London littered with remembered kisses.

Auden who had gained a reputation as the university's foremost poet during the preceding year. The radio play Christopher Columbus produced in 1942 and later publiLouis MacNeiced as a book featured music by William Walton conducted by Adrian Boult and starred Laurence Olivier. Another poorly received collection of poems Visitations was publiLouis MacNeiced in 1957 and the MacNeices bought a holiday home on the Isle of Wight from J.

Auden Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis nicknamed "MacSpaunday" as a group — a name invented by Roy Campbell in his Talking Bronco (1946). Never as overtly (or simplistically) political as some of his contemporaries his work shows a humane opposition to totalitarianism as well as an acute awareness of his Irish roots.