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− | Auden was born February 21, 1907, in York, England, to a doctor and an Anglican, and attended [[Oxford University]].<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/wh-auden-9192132</ref> After attending Oxford with scientific training, he became interested in modernist poetry, and joined a sort of gang that spoke of fascism, praised youth, and believed [[Sigmund Freud|Freudian]] doctrines, | + | Auden was born February 21, 1907, in York, England, to a doctor and an Anglican, and attended [[Oxford University]].<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/wh-auden-9192132</ref> After attending Oxford with scientific training, he became interested in [[modernist ]] poetry, and joined a sort of gang that spoke of fascism, praised youth, and believed [[Sigmund Freud|Freudian]] doctrines, |
a group later called the "Auden Generation," or the "Oxford Group."<ref>https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/w-h-auden</ref> He loathed the beauty of Romantic poets such as [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] and [[John Keats]], | a group later called the "Auden Generation," or the "Oxford Group."<ref>https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/w-h-auden</ref> He loathed the beauty of Romantic poets such as [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] and [[John Keats]], | ||
− | and wrote poems such as "Grub First, then Ethics."<ref>http://www.notablebiographies.com/An-Ba/Auden-W-H.html</ref> He left to travel the world | + | and wrote poems such as "Grub First, then Ethics."<ref>http://www.notablebiographies.com/An-Ba/Auden-W-H.html</ref> He left to travel the world, and to serve in the [[Spanish Civil War]], married to become a U.S. citizen, and gave up his love of psychoanalysis and socialism and became a Christian.<ref>https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/w-h-auden</ref> It is said that he wrote his best poems, including "Stop All the Clocks," ("Funeral Blues,"), during the 1930s.<ref>https://interestingliterature.com/2016/06/13/10-classic-w-h-auden-poems-everyone-should-read/</ref> His poetry began with ''Poems'' in 1928 and continued to appear in an impressive variety of verse forms.<ref>https://allpoetry.com/W-H-Auden</ref> After the Second World War, he showed mastery in both symbolism and technical science, and wrote librettos with the help of his lover, Chester Kallman.<ref>http://www.notablebiographies.com/An-Ba/Auden-W-H.html</ref> He produced many great works at the time, including ''Another Time'' (1940), ''For the Time Being'', several classical-style poems based on patterns, and ''The Rake's Progress'' (1951), a libretto written for Igor Stravinsky.<ref>"Auden, W. H." ''Encyclopedia Brhttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=W._H._Auden&action=submit#editformitannica Online''.</ref> He died September 29, 1973. |
==See also== | ==See also== |
Latest revision as of 00:18, February 5, 2022
Wystan Hugh Auden (1907–73) was an Anglo-American poet. His works include Spain (1937), For the Time Being (1945), The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1948), Collected Shorter Poems, 1930-1944 (1950), Making, Knowing, and Judging (1956), The Dyer's Hand (1962), and Collected Poems (1976). He won a Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Anxiety.[1]
He wrote in a poem called On the Circuit:
- God bless the lot of them, although I don't remember which was which
- God bless the U.S.A., so large, so friendly, and so rich.
Life and Works
Auden was born February 21, 1907, in York, England, to a doctor and an Anglican, and attended Oxford University.[2] After attending Oxford with scientific training, he became interested in modernist poetry, and joined a sort of gang that spoke of fascism, praised youth, and believed Freudian doctrines, a group later called the "Auden Generation," or the "Oxford Group."[3] He loathed the beauty of Romantic poets such as Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats, and wrote poems such as "Grub First, then Ethics."[4] He left to travel the world, and to serve in the Spanish Civil War, married to become a U.S. citizen, and gave up his love of psychoanalysis and socialism and became a Christian.[5] It is said that he wrote his best poems, including "Stop All the Clocks," ("Funeral Blues,"), during the 1930s.[6] His poetry began with Poems in 1928 and continued to appear in an impressive variety of verse forms.[7] After the Second World War, he showed mastery in both symbolism and technical science, and wrote librettos with the help of his lover, Chester Kallman.[8] He produced many great works at the time, including Another Time (1940), For the Time Being, several classical-style poems based on patterns, and The Rake's Progress (1951), a libretto written for Igor Stravinsky.[9] He died September 29, 1973.
See also
References
- ↑ The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference. Prentice Hall, New York, 1993.
- ↑ http://www.biography.com/people/wh-auden-9192132
- ↑ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/w-h-auden
- ↑ http://www.notablebiographies.com/An-Ba/Auden-W-H.html
- ↑ https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/w-h-auden
- ↑ https://interestingliterature.com/2016/06/13/10-classic-w-h-auden-poems-everyone-should-read/
- ↑ https://allpoetry.com/W-H-Auden
- ↑ http://www.notablebiographies.com/An-Ba/Auden-W-H.html
- ↑ "Auden, W. H." Encyclopedia Brhttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=W._H._Auden&action=submit#editformitannica Online.
External links
- Extensive Biography by the Poetry Foundation
- Poems on the Poem Hunter website