W.H. Auden gets a Close Read

Although New York Times arts critic Jason Farago created Close Read, an interactive NYT feature that examines the intersections between art and culture (generally by zeroing in on a painting), in 2020, I only recently became familiar with it. I'm playing catch-up now and enjoying it very much. The latest installment explores W.H. Auden's poem, "Musee des Beaux Arts," and the painting it references, Bruegel's "The Fall of Icarus," while an earlier one looks at Elizabeth Bishop's poem, "One Art."