W. H. Auden

Academic Graffiti is a book of clerihews by W. H. Auden and illustrations by Filippo Sanjust. It was published in 1971. Auden began writing in 1950 the short comic poems on literary and historical figures that he would later collect in Academic Graffiti. A selection of these clerihews appeared in his 1960 book Homage …

This book presents the opinions of W.H. Auden on a wide variety of subjects, from high culture to politics, religion to sex.