With war looming, W.H. Auden stood in a museum and was inspired to write. The resulting poem, “Musée des Beaux Arts,” is one of the most famous ever written about art.

Musée des Beaux Arts. By W. H. Auden. About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While someone else is eating or ...

Poetry in America. Musée des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden. 4/19/2018 | 25m 33s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Explore W.H. Auden's poem with guests Samantha Power, David Brooks, and Peter Sacks.

Finish reading W.H. Auden’s Musée des Beaux Arts here — W.H. Auden , Musée des Beaux Arts (1938) in Collected Poems p. 179 (E. Mendelson ed. 1976) In December 1938, on a visit to Brussels, W.H. Auden ...

W H Auden, Museé des Beaux Arts ‘Museé des Beaux Arts’ by WH Auden is a poem about a painting. That work is Landscape With The Fall of Icarus (c1558) by Pieter Bruegel, and both painting and ...

Musée des Beaux Arts is ranked #5 out of 10 things to do in Lyon. See pictures and our review of Musée des Beaux Arts.

Philippe Costamagna is the director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Ajaccio, Corsica, and a specialist of Pontormo. His major discovery was the artist’s Christ on the Cross (around 1650), found ...