Fascism in Literature

[Terrance]

In Auden's poetry an external disorder, especially of a political sort,
requires "narrow strictness," discipline of thought, feeling, and
expression. Auden underscores the point by using artistic terms--baroque
and surrealist--to describe fascism and war, as if to suggest a link
between the kind of art he had practiced in his early work and the
disorders of the time.