Aquien, Pascal <br/><br/>
W. H. Auden, from “Atlantis” to the New Jerusalem 

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<br/><br/> To some extent, W. H. Auden’s poetry rests on the nostalgia for a lost plenitude. This concern is the starting point of a quest for the reconstitution of a Utopia, which he compares with the deceptively ideal New Jerusalem. However, Auden’s “good place” is neither political nor religious; it is a purely verbal society based on his conception of Whitsunday/Pentecost, the only possible Utopia being to him poetic.