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Dear Macspaunday, I regret to say to someone I have learned to admire for his contributions, but I have undone your removal of the critical study The Hidden law by Anthony Hecht in the Auden article, because your qualification "undistinguished critical study" is clearly nonsense. Theobald Tiger ( talk) 16:30, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Many other people clearly also admire that book, so I won't try to argue about its merits. Macspaunday ( talk) 18:22, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I am not a scholar; I am a Dutch layman who is an admirer of Auden and who has translated some of his verse (English > Dutch). I can only say that in my opinion The Hidden Law is by far the best critical study written on Auden's verse. (W. H. Auden: A Commentary, by John Fuller is also very useful, of course.) Theobald Tiger ( talk) 18:45, 23 May 2009 (UTC)