Thanks, glad to hear you enjoyed the poem. I came across it while doing a shameless Isherwood trawl through the index of my Auden collected works; I hadn't read it before that either.
I haven't read A Question of Proof, so I can't comment on any similarities. But it's *very easy* to see the Wystan in Isherwood's books age into the Auden in Bennett's The Habit of Art--there's the genius, the self-absorption, the academia (which Isherwood loathed), and the physical messiness. Isherwood's Auden is forever leaving his cigar ash all over things, although he's not pissing into sinks like Bennett's.
He's a relatively minor character in the Christopher and His Kind biopic--it's a lot more about Isherwood's relationship with sundry German Boys and Auden mainly shows up as the Famous Poet Who Is Sometimes Sleeping With Him.
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I haven't read A Question of Proof, so I can't comment on any similarities. But it's *very easy* to see the Wystan in Isherwood's books age into the Auden in Bennett's The Habit of Art--there's the genius, the self-absorption, the academia (which Isherwood loathed), and the physical messiness. Isherwood's Auden is forever leaving his cigar ash all over things, although he's not pissing into sinks like Bennett's.
He's a relatively minor character in the Christopher and His Kind biopic--it's a lot more about Isherwood's relationship with sundry German Boys and Auden mainly shows up as the Famous Poet Who Is Sometimes Sleeping With Him.