Nicholas Jenkins on W.H. Auden

Nicholas Jenkins, a writer on culture and literature, discusses W.H. Auden's views on poetry and history, the connection between Auden's voice and class identity, the symbolic island of Englishness in his poetry, his political ideologies and their influence on his work, his famous poem and its meaning, his conversion to Christianity and the power of poetry, and his decision to omit a poem from his collected works.