I sometimes think of Auden's poetry as a hygiene, a knowledge and practice, based on a brilliantly prejudiced analysis of contemporary disorders, relating to the preservation and promotion of health, a sanitary science and a flusher of melancholies. I sometimes think of his poetry as a great war, admire intensely the mature, religious, and logical fighter, and deprecate the boy bushranger.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I sometimes think of Auden's poetry as a hygiene, a knowledge and practice, based on a brilliantly prejudiced analysis of contemporary disorders, relating to the preservation and promotion of health, a sanitary science and a flusher of melancholies. I sometimes think of his poetry as a great war, admire intensely the mature, religious, and logical fighter, and deprecate the boy bushranger." in the context of "Dylan Thomas, New Verse magazine, November 1937. Also quoted in Skelton, Robin, Poetry of the Thirties, Penguin Books, 1963, and Hampson, Robert, and Barry, Peter, New British Poetries :The Scope of the Possible, Manchester University Press, 1995." to mean that wisdom is timeless.