Auden on Voznesensky

The New York Review of Books reprints W.H. Auden's essay on the poetry of recently departed Andrei Voznesensky:

As a fellow maker, I am struck first and foremost by [Voznesensky's] craftsmanship. Here, at least, is a poet who knows that, whatever else it may be, a poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motor-bicycle. Whatever effects can be secured in Russian by rhythm, rhyme, assonance, and contrasts of diction, he clearly knows all about . . .