SOURCE: "Auden's Cena: 'Tonight at Seven-Thirty,'" in Southern Humanities Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, Spring, 1983, pp. 139-47.
In the following essay, McFarland examines the significance of Roman satiric verse and the conventions of the cena, a Roman banquet, in "Tonight at Seven-Thirty."
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