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Auden lived right at the center of this major sea-change in poetic development; his double-life as a British and American citizen only heightened his impact on the Anglophone world; and his influence, both as a beacon of poetry's traditional past and a harbinger of its radical future, is virtually unmatched by any other twentieth-century poet.
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W. H. Auden was a major English poet, one of the most important English-speaking poets born in the twentieth century. His works center on moral issues with strong political, social, and psychological orientations. Noted especially for native lyrical gifts and highly developed technical expertise, he also displayed wide reading and acute intelligenc...
Wystan Hugh Auden was born on February 21, 1907, in York, England. His father was the medical officer of the city of Birmingham and a psychologist. His mother was a devout Anglican, and the combination of religious and scientific or analytic themes are implicit throughout Auden's work. He was educated at St. Edmund's preparatory school, where he me...
In the 1930s W. H. Auden became famous when he was described by literary journalists as the leader of the so-called “Oxford Group,” a circle of young English poets influenced by literary Modernism, in particular by the aesthetic principles espoused by T. S. Eliot. These authors adhered to various communist and antifascist doctrines and expressed in...
Auden's career has undergone much reevaluation through the years. While some critics contend that he wrote his finest work when his political sentiments were less obscured by religion and philosophy, others defend his later material as the work of a highly original and mature intellect. Many critics echo the assessment of Auden's career by the Nati...
In the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Auden's poem “September 1, 1939” was widely circulated. Why do you think this was? What historical event was the poem referring to and what...Auden titles one of his books The Age of Anxiety, a phrase that came to define the post–World War IIworld. What events or social changes made the period 1945–1965 an age of anxiety. Research some o...Auden's poetry often concerns itself with human suffering in both the personal and cultural realms. Compare and contrast the statements on suffering in Auden's “Funeral Blues” and “Musée des Beaux...Write a poem about a loss you have experienced. How did that loss alter your view of the world?Books
Auden, W. H., Katherine Bucknell, and Nicholas Jenkins, eds. In Solitude, for Company: W. H. Auden After 1940, Unpublished Prose and Recent Criticism. New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 1995. Buell, Frederick. W. H. Auden as a Social Poet. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UniversityPress, 1973. Fuller, J. A Reader's Guide to W. H. Auden.New York: Thames & Hudson, 1970. Jacobs, Alan. What Became of Wystan: Change and Continuity in Auden's Poetry. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1998. Page, Nor...
Periodicals
Green, Timothy. “The Spirit of Carnival in Auden's Later Poetry.” The Southern Humanities Review(Fall 1977): vol. 11.4: 372–82. Fountain, James Richard Thomas. “Auden's Spain.” The Explicator(Spring 2007): vol. 65.3: 171. Hamilton, Craig A. “Mapping the mind and the body on W.H. Auden's personifications.” Style(Fall 2002): vol. 36.3: 160; 408. Hitchens, Christopher. “Almost Serendipitious.” Poetry(July–August 2007): vol. 190.4: 339. Hynes, Samuel. “The Voice of Exile: Auden in 1940.” Sewanee...
Web Sites
The Estate of W. H. Auden. The W. H. Auden Society. Accessed February 23, 2008, from http://www.audensociety.org/index.html
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Home - W. H. Auden. Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York, England, but emigrated to the United States in January 1939. He is thus claimed on both sides of the ocean. That year Auden also fell in love with the American writer Chester Kallman, who became his lifetime partner.
The leading younger British poet of the 1930s, W. H. Auden became one of the most influential English-language writers of his time. Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York, England, on 21 February 1907, and educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Christ Church, Oxford.
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Jun 27, 2018 · Auden soon found himself living alone, which did not appeal to him, and he accepted the position that Oxford University offered him in 1972, to move back as an honorary fellow of Christ Church. But the university life there no longer suited him, and the academic community found his unconventional ways unacceptable.
As a young man he was influenced by the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost, as well as William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Old English verse. More about this author > Full Honors. ARTS AND LETTERS FINALIST National Book Awards 1974 > POETRY FINALIST National Book Awards 1973 > POETRY FINALIST National Book Awards 1966 >
