Commentary: WH Auden, GA Auden and psychosomatic aetiology

Source: http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/6/1137.full

WH Auden was also fascinated with psychology, and particularly with psychosomatic disease. During recuperation for an operation for a rectal fissure in 1930 WH Auden started writing a 'textbook of psychology in doggerel verses', in which sexual guilt was equated with ill health:Love your cock
Stand a shock
Hate your cock
Soon a crock⁷