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Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible. […] Poems about Good Friday have, of course, been written, but none of them will do.—W.H. Auden, “A Certain World” Faith and the mysteries inherent to faith occupy much of Auden’s writing, but his Christianity is of the most practical sort: “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” the most simple yet complicated commandment. His religious poetry often combines the beauty of ritual with the practicality of the everyday and the commonplace. His religious faith was not in a God that demands explanation or defense but was an expression of love for the exquisite grace that is life and the gift that is consciousness; that we have neighbors and we have love are mysteries enough worth the daily expression of gratitude. In 1929, at age 22, Auden was living in Berlin, and he composed a poetic diary through the year. In the editions of his Collected Works that he organized, a poem entitle

Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible. […] Poems about Good Friday have, of course, been written, but none of them will do. —W.H. Auden, “A Certain World” Faith and the mysteries inherent to faith occupy much of Auden’s writing, but his Christianity is of the most practical sort: “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” the most simple yet complicated commandment. His religious poetry often combines the beauty of ritual with the practicality of the everyday and the commonplace. His religio

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