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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.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West
, Stella Benson
, Cicely Hamilton
, Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor
and Ellen Wilkinson
, Virginia Woolf
, Naomi Mitchison
, E. M. Delafield
, Rose Macaulay |
| Friends, Associates | Carson McCullers | CMC
therefore shared her day-to-day life at various times with Davis
, W. H. Auden
, Louis MacNiece
, Gypsy Rose Lee
, Benjamin Britten
, Richard Wright
, Paul
and Jane Bowles
, Christopher Isherwood |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Carson McCullers | She had the idea for the title novella when she and editor George Davis
and poet W. H. Auden
were in a bar where other customers included a woman who was tall and strong as... |
| Textual Production | 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. McWilliam, Candia. A Little Stranger. Bloomsbury. prelims |
| Literary responses | Edna St Vincent Millay | Edmund Wilson
disliked this work, apparently because the communist in it is just as ridiculous as the stockbroker, so that no authoritative, authorized, left-wing voice is supplied. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 406 Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 405 |
| Friends, Associates | Naomi Mitchison | NM
's adult friends included artists and writers such as Gertrude Hermes
, Storm Jameson
, Goldie Lowes Dickinson
, Julian Trevelyan
, Gerald Heard
, and Rudi Messel
. Among the close friends were... |
| Literary responses | Naomi Mitchison | Winifred Holtby
, writing in The Bookman, ranked this novel as the most important of the year (a year that saw the appearance of Woolf
's The Waves), Squier, Susan M., and Naomi Mitchison. “Naomi Mitchison: The Feminist Art of Making Things Difficult”. Solution Three, Feminist Press at The City University of New York, pp. 161-83. 165-6 |
| Textual Production | Naomi Mitchison | 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Naomi Mitchison | This indicates how the second world war turned her thoughts back towards the first. She noted the feeling of being on a small island of sand, cut off from past and future, and how wireless... |
| Reception | Marianne Moore | A late flowering of MM
's reputation began when she spoke at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in a double bill with W. H. Auden
. Williams, Mary-Kay. “What a Mother”. London Review of Books, Vol. 37 , No. 23, p. 19021. 21 |
| Friends, Associates | Marianne Moore | MM
corresponded with T. S. Eliot
from 1921 until the year before his death. She was a friend of H. D.
and of Bryher
, and her editors believe that every one of her five... |
| Textual Production | 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... |
| Textual Production | 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... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Adrienne Rich | Her father had planned for her to be a poet; he encouraged her to write something every day and show it to him. O’Mahoney, John. “Poet and Pioneer: Adrienne Rich”. The Guardian, pp. Review 20 - 3. 21 |
| Literary responses | Adrienne Rich | W. H. Auden
, with genuine admiration but instinctive condescension, praised Rich's poems as neatly and modestly dressed. He found them like good girls who speak quietly but do not mumble, respect their elders but... |
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