Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
W. H. Auden
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Standard Name: Auden, W. H.
Used Form: Wystan Hugh Auden
WHA
has been called the outstanding poet of his generation. His prolific output of poetry is endlessly versatile, often deeply personal but usually also carrying political freight, often experimental, combining the classical and the colloquial, the lyric and the deliberately prosaic. He wrote a great deal in collaboration, often for stage or even operatic performance. He was a riveting lecturer and an unsystematic but always stimulating literary critic.
Her central theme here is the responsibility of the writer for the survival of the values of liberal humanism.
British Book News. British Council.
(1950): 838
Her title essay paints a sombre political picture of Britain. SJ
discusses the...
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Maureen Duffy
MD
's website features a series of poems indignantly addressed to William Langland
, author of Piers Plowman, of behalf of the new, unacknowledged poor. The New Vision of Piers Plowless sets the scene:...
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Helen Dunmore
HD
's next novel, With Your Crooked Heart, the last in her triplet of thrillers, is titled from a poem by Auden
.
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Laura Riding
Though LR
had recently been publishing prose works in the USA as well as at London, she had issued no book of poems there since The Close Chaplet twelve years before.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
320
This volume...
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Jane Gardam
The book is dedicated to Stone. Its epigraph quotes W. H. Auden
: We are not free to choose by what we / shall be enchanted. The poet advises, in the case of a...
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Candia McWilliam
CMW
published her second novel, A Little Stranger, dedicated to Clara Henderson
, with stanzas from Auden
's poem Trinculo's Song as an epigraph.
Authors or politicians whom HA
wrote about in articles, reviews, or editions (excluding those essays reprinted in Men in Dark Times) include Konrad Adenauer
, W. H. Auden
, Wilhelm Dilthey
, Waldemar Gurian
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Anne Stevenson
As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan
, her models included the suave, disciplined, informal, very accessible
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
122
early poems of her near-contemporary Adrienne Rich
. She wrote two stage works that were performed...
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Diana Athill
Field kept what he calls Athill's long, marvellous letters,
The phrase is from W. H. Auden
, from a poem about literary biography in which the poet imagines these letters thrown away.
NM
's well-known contributors included Dick Mitchison
, John Pilley
, Margaret Cole
, and W. H. Auden
. The project was born during the run-up to the 1931 election.
Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora.
82
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz.
169-70
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Christine Brooke-Rose
Here she examines Stephen Crane
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, Ezra Pound
, and W. H. Auden
, as examples of the role and operation of poets or fiction writers who also produce criticism.
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Jan Morris
Morris wrote on a wide range of topics for the Times, contributing The Comic Strip in American Life and The Plays of Eugene O'Neill to a collection of articles jointly titled The American Press...
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Kathleen Raine
Early in her career KR
was known as a commentator on contemporary or near-contemporary, modernist poetry: a volume of her reviews written between January 1941 and March 1951 was published in 2002 as Defining the...
15 August 1947: British rule on the Indian subcontinent ended...
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15 August 1947
British rule on the Indian subcontinent ended in independence for India and Pakistan (which became Dominions within the Commonwealth), but also in Partition, which divided the new countries along religious lines.
September 1949: PEN International held a conference in Venice....
By July 1964: Canadian writer Jane Rule issued in Canada...
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By July 1964
Canadian writer Jane Rule
issued in Canada and England her best-known novel, Desert of the Heart, whose title alludes to W. H. Auden
's poem on the death of Yeats
.
1979: Anna Adams published her verse letter A Reply...
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1979
Anna Adams
published her verseletterA Reply to Intercepted Mail (A Verse-Letter to W. H. Auden
) in the Peterloo Poets series.
Texts
Rich, Adrienne, and W. H. Auden. A Change of World. Yale University Press, 1951.
Auden, W. H. About the House. Random House, 1965.
Auden, W. H. Another Time. Faber and Faber, 1940.
Auden, W. H. Collected Longer Poems. Random House, 1965.
Auden, W. H. Collected Poems. Editor Mendelson, Edward, Faber and Faber, 1976.
Auden, W. H. Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957. Faber and Faber, 1969.
Auden, W. H. For the Time Being. Random House.
Auden, W. H., and Christopher Isherwood. Journey to a War. Faber and Faber, 1939.
Auden, W. H., and Louis MacNeice. Letters from Iceland. Faber and Faber, 1937.
Auden, W. H. Look, Stranger!. Faber and Faber, 1936.
Britten, Benjamin, and W. H. Auden. Paul Bunyan. Faber Music.
Auden, W. H. Poems. Faber and Faber, 1930.
Auden, W. H. Secondary Worlds. Faber and Faber, 1968.
Auden, W. H. “September 1, 1939”. Poets.org: from the Academy of American Poets: Auden.
Auden, W. H. Thank You, Fog. Faber and Faber, 1974.
Auden, W. H. The Age of Anxiety. Random House, 1947.
Auden, W. H. The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays. Random House, 1962.
Auden, W. H. The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays. Faber and Faber, 1975.
Auden, W. H. The Enchafèd Flood; or, the Romantic Iconography of the Sea. Faber and Faber, 1950.
Stravinsky, Igor Fedorovich et al. The Rake’s Progress. Sorteni.
Auden, W. H. The Shield of Achilles. Faber and Faber, 1955.