# As I Walked Out One Evening

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- Book: [As I Walked Out One Evening](https://www.bookquiver.com/w-h-auden/as-i-walked-out-one-evening) ([As I Walked Out One Evening.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/w-h-auden/as-i-walked-out-one-evening.md))
- Authors: [Wystan Hugh Auden](https://www.bookquiver.com/w-h-auden)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7976-170-9
- Pages: 240
- Published: 1995-08-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

W. H. Auden once defined light verse as the kind that is written by poets who are democratically in tune with their audience and whose language is straightforward and close to general speech. Given...