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Auden, Wystan Hugh [W. H. Auden] (1907–1973), poet and writer, was born at 54 Bootham, York, on 21 February 1907, the youngest of three children (all sons) of George Augustus Auden (1872–1957), general practitioner, and his wife, Constance Rosalie, née Bicknell (1869–1941).
Apr 5, 2024 · Auden's televised 1971 reading (and updating) of "The Unknown Citizen" has been posted here, thanks to the generosity of the producer. Some recent and forthcoming books about Auden are listed here: Auden and the Muse of History, by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb. The Landscapes of W. H. Auden's Interwar Poetry: Roots and Routes, by Ladislav Vit
Apr 2, 2024 · 1. Now available in Auden, W.H.: Collected Poems, ed. Mendelson, Edward, Faber and Faber Google Scholar, £8.50. This volume contains only the poems which Auden wished to preserve, in their final versions. A forthcoming companion volume will contain discarded pieces, and earlier versions of canonical works. 2.
The following poems are part of the Auden exhibit on the web site of the Academy of American Poets. They are listed in chronological order of composition. Lullaby. As I Walked Out One Evening. Epitaph on a Tyrant. In Memory of W. B. Yeats. The Unknown Citizen. September 1, 1939. In Memory of Sigmund Freud.
W.H. Auden. Poems, published in such collections as Look, Stranger! (1936) and The Shield of Achilles (1955), established importance of British-American writer and critic Wystan Hugh Auden in 20th-century literature. In and near Birmingham, he developed in a professional middle-class family. He attended English independent schools and studied ...
Early life. Wystan Hugh Auden was born on February 21, 1907, in York, England. He was the last of three sons born to George and Constance Auden. His father was the medical officer for the city of Birmingham, England, and a psychologist (a person who studies the mind). His mother was a devoted Anglican (a member of the Church of England).
W. H. Auden was admired for his unsurpassed technical virtuosity and ability to write poems in nearly every imaginable verse form; his incorporation of popular culture, current events, and vernacular speech in his work; and also for the vast range of his intellect, which drew easily from an extraordinary variety of literatures, art forms, social and political theories, and scientific and ...
