SOURCE: "Auden's Local Culture," in Hudson Review, Vol. 47, No. 4, Winter, 1995, pp. 543-68.
In the following essay, Jacobs examines Auden's communitarian sympathies and moral vision. According to Jacobs, "Auden understood both the costs and benefits of choosing to cultivate local knowledge and local attachments better than almost any political thinker writing about such issues today."
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