Alexander McCall Smith vs. W. H. Auden
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Alexander McCall Smith
1948 – present
Sir Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith is a Rhodesian-Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction. He was raised in Southern Rhodesia and was formerly Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He became an expert on medical law and bioethics and served on related British and international committees.
"Each of us is born into our own mysteries…but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!"
W. H. Auden
1907 – 1973
Wystan Hugh Auden was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content. Some of his best known poems are about love, such as "Funeral Blues"; on political and social themes, such as "September 1, 1939" and "The Shield of Achilles"; on cultural and psychological themes, such as The Age of Anxiety; and on religious themes, such as "For the Time Being" and "Horae Canonicae".
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
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