This author's lines "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, / Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone" were used in the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral.
This author's lines "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, / Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone" were used in the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral. Partly responsible for re-introducing Anglo-Saxon accentual meter to English poetry, he used the meter for a Pulitzer-winning Baroque Eclouge. Though homosexual, he married Erika Mann to help her escape the Third Reich. In addition to works such "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" and "The Shield of Achilles" he is known for a poem about an employee of Fudge Motors. For 10 points-- name this author of "The Unknown Citizen" and "Age of Anxiety."
This author's lines "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, / Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone" were used in the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Wystan Hugh {Auden}