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Auden was a prolific writer of prose essays and reviews on literary, political, psychological, and religious subjects, and he worked at various times on documentary films, poetic plays, and other forms of performance. Throughout his career he was both controversial and influential.
W. H. Auden. 1907–1973. Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo. English poet, playwright, critic, and librettist Wystan Hugh Auden exerted a major influence on the poetry of the 20th century. Auden grew up in Birmingham, England and was known for his extraordinary intellect and wit.
May 20, 2024 · W. H. Auden (born February 21, 1907, York, Yorkshire, England—died September 29, 1973, Vienna, Austria) 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.
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.
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 ...
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.
4 days ago · While still at Oxford, in the 1920s, Auden established his pre-eminence among the young writers who became the leading left-wing poets of the next decade. Poems (1930), The Orators (1932), and Look, Stranger! (1936) made his reputation as a witty and technically accomplished lyricist.
W.H. Auden (1907-1973) was born in York and raised in Birmingham. As a student at Oxford University, Auden’s poetry was heavily influenced by T.S Eliot, who later published some of his work. Auden lived between America and Europe, and much of his writing references his time abroad.
W. H. Auden. 1907 –. 1973. As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement. Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming river. I heard a lover sing.
English poet, playwright, critic, and librettist Wystan Hugh Auden exerted a major influence on the poetry of the 20th century. Auden grew up in Birmingham, England and was known for his extraordinary intellect and wit.
