Craftsman: W.H. Auden prized metrical rules because, he said, they prevent automatic responses and force a poet to have second thoughts. He was at a c(...)

Original Toronto Star caption: Craftsman: W.H. Auden prized metrical rules because, he said, they prevent automatic responses and force a poet to have second thoughts. He was at a conference at the University of Toronto a few years ago when Star photographer Reg Innell took this exclusive picture.