Letter from Laura Jackson to Edward Mendelson, 1970-06-29

"It seems to me that you are conronted in the case of Auden with the necessity of a distinction between the problem of understanding the way in which a poet comes to write in the ways he or she does and the severe responsibility of differentiation between the poet's ways of writing that are of the poet's nature and the ways that are grafte dupon - not the nature, you can't graft upon a nature - but the posture the poet assumes before the public."