On Cheese, Poetry, and the Poetry of Cheese (or the Cheese of Poetry) Part I

Was Auden channeling Chesterton?

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."

G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

"A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese,
local, but prized elsewhere."

W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)