摘要:ONE of the most understandable of great contemporarv poets, W. H. Auden, writes in his new Epistle to a Godson: “ You don’t need me to tell vou what’s going on: the ochlocratic media, joint with under-the-drver gossip, process and vent without intermission all to-day’s uglv secrets. . . . if what is to happen occurs according to what Thucydides defined as ‘human’, we’ve had it. are in for a disaster that no four-letter words will tardy.”.