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W. H. Auden. Wystan Hugh Auden (/ ˈwɪstənˈhjuːˈɔːdən /; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 [ 1 ]) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content.
Jun 13, 2016 · W. H. Auden (1907-1973) wrote a great deal of poetry, with many of the best Auden poems being written in the 1930s. In this post, we’ve taken on the difficult task of finding the ten greatest Auden poems – difficult because, although certain poems naturally rise to the surface and proclaim their greatness, there are quite a few of those.
Aug 14, 2024 · W. H. Auden was an English-born poet and man of letters who achieved early fame in the 1930s as a hero of the left during the Great Depression. Most of his verse dramas of this period were written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood.
His 1947 poem by that title, wrote Monroe K. Spears in his Poetry of W.H. Auden, was a “sympathetic satire on the attempts of human beings to escape, through their own efforts, the anxiety of our age.” Auden struck a chord in readers with his timely treatment of the moral and political issues that directly affected them.
W. H. Auden served as a C hancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1954 to 1973, and divided most of the second half of his life between residences in New York City and Austria. He died in Vienna on September 29, 1973.
Poems. Because of copyright restrictions, no texts of Auden's poems are posted on this site. Links are provided below to poems posted on other sites with the permission of Auden's estate. The following poems are part of the Auden exhibit on the web site of the Academy of American Poets.
Aug 16, 2023 · W.H. Auden was a British poet, author and playwright best known as a leading literary figure in the 20th century for his poetry.
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