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Poetry in America
Musée des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden
Season 1
Episode 7
How are ordinary people to regard, and respond to, suffering they have not caused? Ponder W.H. Auden’s World War II era reflections on suffering in “Musée des Beaux Arts" with Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, with journalist and ethicist David Brooks, and with poet, professor, and painter Peter Sacks.
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Tony Kushner, David Strathairn & more read Whitman’s “The Wound-Dresser” with Elisa New.