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Auden’s crime against the martini

The Poetry Foundation just published an essay by writer Rosie Schaap, attempting to process the distressing anecdotal evidence that poet and noted martini enthusiast W.H. Auden committed the original sin against the cocktail, in whose name unspeakable crimes have been committed. Auden may very well have drunk his martinis with vodka instead of gin.