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Dated January 1939, “Epitaph on a Tyrant” is one of British poet W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden’s most famous political poems. Concise and scathingly witty, it’s readily applicable to Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Franco, or whichever dictator you hate most.

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