From the fall of 1947 through the summer of 1951 composer Igor Stravinsky and poet W.
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Few perceived that Stravinsky and Auden were confronting the central crisis of the Modern age, for their story of a hapless eighteenth-century Everyman dramatizes the very limits of human will, a theme Auden insists underlies all opera.
At the time, their self-consciously conventional work seemed to appeal only to conservative audiences.
Auden collaborated on the opera The Rake\'s Progress .
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From the fall of 1947 through the summer of 1951 composer Igor Stravinsky and poet W