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Biography. Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) is one of the most influential voices in 20th Century poetry. It is impossible to summarise his achievements, ranging as they do across some four hundred poems in a bewildering variety of styles, as well as drama, essays, libretti, travel writing and critical works. Conventionally, though, his life is ...
W. H. Auden, (born Feb. 21, 1907, York, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Sept. 29, 1973, Vienna, Austria), British-born U.S. poet and man of letters. He attended Oxford University, where he exerted a strong influence on C. Day-Lewis, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender. Auden’s varied works throughout his life dealt with intellectual and moral issues ...
The Fall of Rome. W.H. Auden’s ‘The Fall of Rome’ explores the downfall of civilization following World War II and the independence of India. 'The Fall of Rome' is one of the best poems Auden produced after the 1930s and takes the collapse of the Roman Empire as its inspiration. The timing of its conception, in 1947, and its use of ...
ウィスタン・ヒュー・オーデン （ Wystan Hugh Auden 、 1907年 2月21日 - 1973年 9月29日 ）は、 イギリス 出身で アメリカ合衆国 に移住した 詩人 。. 20世紀 最大の詩人の一人とみなされている。.
W. H. Auden. Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973), who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, born in England, later an American citizen, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. His work is noted for its stylistic and technical achievements, its engagement with moral and ...
Wystan Hugh Auden. (York, Reino Unido, 1907 - Viena, 1973) Poeta, ensayista y libretista estadounidense de origen británico. Junto a Cecil Day-Lewis, Louis MacNeice y Stephen Spender, W. H. Auden representó la más rica e interesante producción de su época. En su primera etapa, de abierto compromiso de izquierda, se apoyó en las ...
By W. H. Auden. December 1938. About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood. Its human position; how it takes place. While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along. How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting. For the miraculous birth, there always must be.
