The English-born American poet W. H. Auden was one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. His works center on moral issues and show strong political, social, and psychological (involving the study of the mind) orientations.
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, …
W.H. Auden was a poet, author and playwright. Auden was a leading literary influencer in the 20th century. Known for his chameleon-like ability to write poems in almost every verse form,...
In London, in the early 1930s, Auden belonged to a circle of promising young poets who were strongly leftist. His book Poems, which helped to establish his reputation, focused on the …
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With his new book, The Island: War and Belonging in Auden's England (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press), Jenkins delves into the early life and work of the poet and …
In the case of W.H. Auden, an astonishingly diverse array of works is representative of an extensive range of experiences and ideological shifts in the poet's life. Critics divide Auden's …
W H Auden (Wystan Hugh Auden, 1907-1973) was a poet, critic and scholar. We was born in York, the younghest son of a doctor and a nurse, he grew up in Birmingham and was educated at St Edmund's School, Hindhead, Surrey, …
Today he is considered one of the most skilled and creative mid-20th century poets who regularly wrote in traditional rhyme and meter. Auden was born and raised in a heavily industrial section of northern England.
The arc of a poet is revealed through the two spheres that Auden was most interested in—the technical, inner workings of the poem, and the way the poem reflects the …