"W. H. Auden Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form and content. He is best known for love poems such as ""Funeral Blues"", poems on political and social themes such as ""September 1, 1939"" and ""The Shield of Achilles"", poems on cultural and psychological themes such as ""The Age of Anxiety"", and poems on religious themes such as ""For the Time Being"" and ""Horae Canonicae"". He was born in"
"Poems (Auden) Poems is the title of three separate collections of the early poetry of W. H. Auden. Auden refused to title his early work because he wanted the reader to confront the poetry itself. Consequently, his first book was called simply ""Poems"" when it was printed by his friend and fellow poet Stephen Spender in 1928; he used the same title for the very different book published by Faber & Faber in 1930 (second edition 1933), and by Random House in 1934 (which also included ""The Orators"" and ""The Dance of Death""). The privately printed 1928 edition of ""Poems"""
"book in the United States. The publisher included all three of the books that Auden had published in the UK in this volume. For a few readers and critics, e. g., Randall Jarrell, the 1930 and 1933 versions remain Auden's greatest achievement. Poems (Auden) Poems is the title of three separate collections of the early poetry of W. H. Auden. Auden refused to title his early work because he wanted the reader to confront the poetry itself. Consequently, his first book was called simply ""Poems"" when it was printed by his friend and fellow poet Stephen Spender in 1928; he"
"his career he was both controversial and influential, and critical views on his work ranged from sharply dismissive, treating him as a lesser follower of W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot, to strongly affirmative, as in Joseph Brodsky's claim that he had ""the greatest mind of the twentieth century"". After his death, his poems became known to a much wider public than during his lifetime through films, broadcasts and popular media. Auden was born in York, England, to George Augustus Auden (1872–1957), a physician, and Constance Rosalie Auden (""née"" Bicknell; 1869–1941), who had trained (but never served) as a"
"the second son of George Augustus Auden with Constance Rosalie née Bicknell (1869–1941) and was an older brother of the poet W. H. Auden. He was educated along with his younger brother Wystan at St Edmund's School, Hindhead, a Surrey prep school, after his father moved to teach public health at Birmingham. He excelled in French, English and the classics and being bespectactled earned the nickname of ""dodo"". He later studied at Marlborough College (1917 to 1922), and geology at Christ's College, Cambridge receiving a BA in 1936 after which he joined the Geological Survey of India, where he remained"
"the earth,"" ""The New Yorker"" poetry editor Howard Moss wrote shortly after Auden's death, ""Auden was one of them"". Auden's family roots were strongly tied to the West Midlands and he grew up from the age of six months in the Birmingham area, first in Solihull and then in Harborne, the son of George Augustus Auden, the Schools Medical Officer for Birmingham City Council. Auden's early poetry carried strong social, political and economic overtones, reflecting an interest in the thought of Marx and Freud inherited from his father, but his later work was characterised by a greater interest in religious"
"The Unknown Citizen ""The Unknown Citizen"" is a poem written by W. H. Auden in 1939, shortly after he moved from England to the United States. The poem was first published on January 6, 1940 in ""The New Yorker"", and first appeared in book form in Auden's collection ""Another Time"" (Random House, 1940). The poem is the epitaph of a man identified only by a combination of letters and numbers somewhat like an American Social Security number (""JS/07/M/378""), who is described entirely in external terms: from the point of view of government organizations such as the fictional ""Bureau of Statistics."""
"summered in Ischia; from 1958 until the end of his life he wintered in New York (in Oxford in 1972–73) and summered in Kirchstetten, Lower Austria. He came to wide public attention with his first book ""Poems"" at the age of twenty-three in 1930; it was followed in 1932 by ""The Orators"". Three plays written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood between 1935 and 1938 built his reputation as a left-wing political writer. Auden moved to the United States partly to escape this reputation, and his work in the 1940s, including the long poems ""For the Time Being"" and ""The Sea"
"the press are pleased with his buying papers daily and responding to the ads. The industry poll takers are happy with his buying habits, and teachers are glad he stayed out of their way. In Auden's poem, the entire system and society are responsible for the loss of individualism, whether or not government was the initial cause of the decline. The Unknown Citizen ""The Unknown Citizen"" is a poem written by W. H. Auden in 1939, shortly after he moved from England to the United States. The poem was first published on January 6, 1940 in ""The New Yorker"", and"
"Musée des Beaux Arts (poem) ""Musée des Beaux Arts"" (French for ""Museum of Fine Arts"") is a poem written by W. H. Auden in December 1938 while he was staying in Brussels, Belgium with Christopher Isherwood. It was first published under the title ""Palais des beaux arts"" (Palace of Fine Arts) in the Spring 1939 issue of ""New Writing"", a modernist magazine edited by John Lehmann. It next appeared in the collected volume of verse ""Another Time"" (New York: Random House, 1940), which was followed four months later by the English edition (London: Faber and Faber, 1940). The poem's title"
"had never held but had used only because he felt they would be rhetorically effective. His rejected poems include ""Spain"" and ""September 1, 1939"". His literary executor, Edward Mendelson, argues in his introduction to ""Selected Poems"" that Auden's practice reflected his sense of the persuasive power of poetry and his reluctance to misuse it. (""Selected Poems"" includes some poems that Auden rejected and early texts of poems that he revised.) Auden began writing poems in 1922, at fifteen, mostly in the styles of 19th-century romantic poets, especially Wordsworth, and later poets with rural interests, especially Thomas Hardy. At eighteen he"
"Stephen Spender; these four were commonly though misleadingly identified in the 1930s as the ""Auden Group"" for their shared (but not identical) left-wing views. Auden left Oxford in 1928 with a third-class degree. Auden was reintroduced to Christopher Isherwood in 1925 by his fellow student A. S. T. Fisher. For the next few years Auden sent poems to Isherwood for comments and criticism; the two maintained a sexual friendship in intervals between their relations with others. In 1935–39 they collaborated on three plays and a travel book. From his Oxford years onward, Auden's friends uniformly described him as funny, extravagant,"
"(1994); subsequently, a pamphlet edition of ten of his poems, ""Tell Me the Truth About Love"", sold more than 275,000 copies. After 11 September 2001 his 1939 poem ""September 1, 1939"" was widely circulated and frequently broadcast. Public readings and broadcast tributes in the UK and US in 2007 marked his centenary year. Overall, Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form and content. Memorial stones and plaques commemorating Auden include those in Westminster Abbey; at his birthplace at 55 Bootham, York; near his"
"H. Auden and wrote a new version of the English lyrics of the Polish revolutionary song ""Whirlwinds of Danger"". He operated in North London, as a close associate of Nancy Cunard, sometimes lending his name. He was one of the organisers of the covert Writer's Group of the late 1930s, attempting to co-ordinate a 'literary policy' of the Left. He was involved also in work for the Unity Theatre. He was the literary editor of the Daily Worker, and often reviewed books for The Times, The Manchester Guardian, and other newspapers. With his brother, the Labour MP Stephen Swingler, he"
"a shadow streams Over the wheat waving, over the woman's face Life came lingering. Nor was it long after Down its blue pathways, blood returning Moved, and mounted to her maiden cheek. </poem> W. H. Auden (1907–1973) wrote a number of poems, including ""The Age of Anxiety"", in a type of alliterative verse modified for modern English. The noun-laden style of the headlines makes the style of alliterative verse particularly apt for Auden's poem: <poem style=""margin-left: 2em""> Now the news. Night raids on Five cities. Fires started. Pressure applied by pincer movement In threatening thrust. Third Division Enlarges beachhead. Lucky"
"the daughter of William Hopkins, a Staffordshire landowner, who held the patronage of St Michael's, Church Broughton and St John the Divine, Horninglow. A number of clergy followed but Auden's father, Thomas Edward, was of a different mold enjoying a ""Huntin', Shootin' and Fishin' existence, blasting away at stags each year in Mull in the Hebrides"". He was first cousin to the poet W. H. Auden. Auden was educated at Marlborough College from 1908–1911 where his academic results were not encouraging. He passed his law examinations and joined the family firm of solicitors after his war service. He was commissioned"
"for words had already begun. He wrote later: ""words so excite me that a pornographic story, for example, excites me sexually more than a living person can do."" Auden attended St Edmund's School, Hindhead, Surrey, where he met Christopher Isherwood, later famous in his own right as a novelist. At thirteen he went to Gresham's School in Norfolk; there, in 1922, when his friend Robert Medley asked him if he wrote poetry, Auden first realised his vocation was to be a poet. Soon after, he ""discover(ed) that he (had) lost his faith"" (through a gradual realisation that he had lost"
"first of ten poems grouped together in ""Ten Songs"", which also includes the above-mentioned ""Calypso"". Refugee Blues ""Refugee Blues"" is a poem by W. H. Auden, written in 1939, one of a number of poems Auden wrote in the mid- to late-1930s in blues and other popular metres, for example the meter he used in his love poem ""Calypso"", written around the same time. The poem dramatizes the condition of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the years before World War II, especially the indifference and antagonism they faced when seeking asylum in the democracies of the period. In some"
"was possibly educated at the priory of Great Malvern. The earliest poetical allusion to the Malvern Hills occurs in the poem: """"And on a Maye mornynge on Malverne hylles"""". The poet W. H. Auden taught for three years at The Downs School, Colwall, in the Malvern Hills. He spent three years at the school in the 1930s and wrote some of his finest early love poems there, including: ""This Lunar Beauty""; ""Let Your Sleeping Head""; ""My Love, Fish in the Unruffled Lakes""; and ""Out on the Lawn I Lie in Bed"". He also wrote a long poem about the hills"
"to spend his summers with Auden in Austria. In 1972, Auden moved his winter home from New York to Oxford, where his old college, Christ Church, offered him a cottage, while he continued to spend summers in Austria. He died in Vienna in 1973, a few hours after giving a reading of his poems at the Austrian Society for Literature; his death occurred at the Altenburgerhof Hotel where he was staying overnight before his intended return to Oxford the next day. He was buried in Kirchstetten. Auden published about four hundred poems, including seven long poems (two of them book-length)."
"continued to use in many poems for the rest of his career. The book is dedicated to Edmund and Elena Wilson. About the House About the House is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1965 by Random House (first published in England by Faber & Faber in 1966). The book is in two unnumbered parts, ""Thanksgiving for a Habitat"", a sequence of poems about Auden's house in Kirchstetten, Austria, and a miscellaneous group of poems headed ""In and Out"". Almost all the poems were written from 1960 through 1964. The ""Thanksgiving for a Habitat"" sequence includes"
"in the contemporary world. Auden wrote the poem to be set to music by Benjamin Britten, but it was far too long for this purpose, and Britten set only two fragments, including one (""Shepherd's Carol"") that Auden dropped before the work was published. The poem is dedicated to the memory of Auden's mother, Constance Rosalie Bicknell Auden. For the Time Being ""For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio"", is a long poem by W. H. Auden, written 1941-42, and first published in 1944. It was one of two long poems included in Auden's book also titled For the Time Being,"
"English. Alexander Platt translated his ""Poems"" (Leipsic, 1848), W. W. Skeat his ""Songs and Ballads"" (London, 1864), and W. C. Sanders his ""Poems"" (1869). Ludwig Uhland Johann Ludwig Uhland (26 April 1787 – 13 November 1862) was a German poet, philologist and literary historian. He was born in Tübingen, Württemberg, and studied jurisprudence at the university there, but also took an interest in medieval literature, especially old German and French poetry. Having graduated as a doctor of laws in 1810, he went to Paris for eight months to continue his studies of poetry; and from 1812 to 1814 he worked"
"time in Iceland... I enjoyed Spain too, & now London. Hampstead is the best part to live, I think. Stephen Spender is back in London & I am going to a party he is having this Thursday... Not that I'm really lonely because I'm so busy - or else so idle in that I waste a lot of time seeing people & talking."" (10 November 1936). ""Epilogue for W. H. Auden"" is a poem of 19 stanzas, each of four lines. The rhyme scheme is ""aabb"". The poem is written in tetrameters (lines of four metrical feet). W. H. Auden"
"Howard Austen Howard Austen (born Howard Auster; January 28, 1929 – September 22, 2003) was the long-time companion of American writer Gore Vidal for 53 years until Austen's death. Austen was born into a working-class Jewish family and grew up in The Bronx, New York. Reportedly, Austen wanted to have a career as a singer. In 1950, when Vidal met Austen, he had just graduated and was struggling to find work writing advertising copy. At Vidal's suggestion, he changed his surname from ""Auster"" to ""Austen"" ""after advertising firms refused to hire him because he was Jewish."" Immediately after he changed"
"and was buried on 15 February 1850. Edward Hughes (poet) Edward Hughes (1772 – 11 February 1850) was a Welsh clergyman and prize-winning Welsh language poet, whose bardic name was """" (""The wren""). Hughes was born in Nannerch, Flintshire, north Wales and christened on 4 July 1772. He matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford in 1794, obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1797 and his Master of Arts degree in 1800. He was ordained and was a military chaplain for a time, including service on the Walcheren Campaign of 1809. He was later rector of Llanddulas (1814–1818) and then of"
"moved to Homer Road in Solihull, near Birmingham, in 1908, where his father had been appointed the School Medical Officer and Lecturer (later Professor) of Public Health. Auden's lifelong psychoanalytic interests began in his father's library. From the age of eight he attended boarding schools, returning home for holidays. His visits to the Pennine landscape and its declining lead-mining industry figure in many of his poems; the remote decaying mining village of Rookhope was for him a ""sacred landscape"", evoked in a late poem, ""Amor Loci"". Until he was fifteen he expected to become a mining engineer, but his passion"
"Refugee Blues ""Refugee Blues"" is a poem by W. H. Auden, written in 1939, one of a number of poems Auden wrote in the mid- to late-1930s in blues and other popular metres, for example the meter he used in his love poem ""Calypso"", written around the same time. The poem dramatizes the condition of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the years before World War II, especially the indifference and antagonism they faced when seeking asylum in the democracies of the period. In some later editions of Auden's poetry, the poem is not identified by name but is the"
"Epilogue For W. H. Auden ""Epilogue For W. H. Auden"" is a 76-line poem by Louis MacNeice. It was written in late 1936 and was first published in book form in ""Letters from Iceland"", a travel book in prose and verse by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice (1937). MacNeice subsequently included it as the last poem in his poetry collection ""The Earth Compels"" (1938). ""Epilogue For W. H. Auden"" reviews the Iceland trip MacNeice and Auden had taken together in the summer of 1936; the poem mentions events that had occurred while MacNeice and Auden were in Iceland, such"
"Auden Group The Auden Group or the Auden Generation is a group of British and Irish writers active in the 1930s that included W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day-Lewis, Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood, and sometimes Edward Upward and Rex Warner. They were sometimes called simply the Thirties poets (see ""References""). Although many newspaper articles and a few books appeared about the ""Auden Group"", the existence of the group was essentially a journalistic myth, a convenient label for poets and novelists who were approximately the same age, who had been educated at Oxford and Cambridge, who had known each other"
"as the fall of Seville (marking the start of the Spanish Civil War) and the Olympic Games in Berlin. W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice made a trip to Iceland in the summer of 1936. Auden travelled first, in early June; MacNeice followed in early August, arriving in Reykjavík on 9 August. MacNeice spent his first week in Reykjavik, after which the two poets took part in an expedition to circumnavigate the Langjökull (or Long Glacier) on horseback. Auden found MacNeice 'the ideal travelling companion, funny, observant, tolerant and good-tempered', and many years later would say: 'I have very rarely"
"September 1, 1939 ""September 1, 1939"" is a poem by W. H. Auden written on the occasion of the outbreak of World War II. It was first published in ""The New Republic"" issue of 18 October 1939, and was first published in book form in Auden's collection ""Another Time"" (1940). The poem deliberately echoes the stanza form of W. B. Yeats's ""Easter, 1916"", another poem about an important historical event; like Yeats' poem, Auden's moves from a description of historical failures and frustrations to a possible transformation in the present or future. Until the two final stanzas, the poem briefly"
"Another of the North Pennines' oddities is that it is home to England's only named wind, the Helm Wind. It has caught out many walkers traversing the plateaux around Cross Fell, the Eden Valley fellside, and the valleys between Alston and Dufton. The great English poet W. H. Auden spent much time in this area and some forty poems and two plays are set here. Auden visited the area in 1919 and ""five years later was writing poems about Alston Moor and Allendale."" He referred to the region as his ""Mutterland"", his ""great good place"", and equated it with his"