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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.
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.
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.
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.
W. H. Auden's Revising Process, a series of eleven articles by Yoshinari S. Yamada, first published in 1974-1990, is now available from this site as a single PDF file. Auden's Revisions , by W. D. Quesenbery, is a book-length study that the author completed shortly before his death.
The More Loving One. By W. H. Auden. Looking up at the stars, I know quite well. That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least. We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn.
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 ...
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