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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Virginia Woolf | Through the 1930s, Woolf struggled to define herself and her work against the rise of Fascism in Europe, to chart the relationship between artistic and political tasks. She and her Bloomsbury friends began to be... |
| politics | Sybille Bedford | At this time, with a German passport near its expiry date and an application for French citizenship which had so far gone nowhere, she attracted the attention of the Nazi authorities not only by expressing... |
| politics | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
, like many of the left-wing intellectuals in the inter-war period, supported the fight against fascism in Spain. Her husband Wogan and many of her male friends, including Auden
, joined the International Brigade |
| 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
. |
| Reception | Elizabeth Jennings | EJ
has said that at this date she was beginning to achieve in her work a certain mastery of form qtd. in Couzyn, Jeni, editor. The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books, 1985. 100 |
| Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | This volume's title and epigraph are taken from The Great Gatsby. Like AR
's other works, Dark Fields of the Republic reflects a diverse group of artistic and social influences, which include the Bible... |
| Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Critic Deryn Rees-Jones
discerns widely varied influences on CAD
's work: mainstream English poets like Wordsworth
, Robert Browning
, T. S. Eliot
, Auden
, Dylan Thomas
, Larkin
, and Ted Hughes
... |
| Textual Features | Seamus Heaney | These pieces cover elders and friends (Larkin
, Walcott
, Patrick Kavanagh
), poets of Eastern Europe where poetry performs the service of resistance to political oppression (as it might do in Northern Ireland... |
| Textual Features | Philip Larkin | As an undergraduate Larkin was naturally still finding his voice. One poem dating from probably 1943 has its title and its lesbian topic from Charles Baudelaire
: Femmes Damnées. Larkin's poem of this title... |
| 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. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. McWilliam, Candia. A Little Stranger. Bloomsbury, 1989. prelims |
| Textual Production | 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:... |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Helen Dunmore | HD
's next novel, With Your Crooked Heart, the last in her triplet of thrillers, is titled from a poem by Auden
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
| 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, 1992. 82 Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979. 169-70 |
| Textual Production | 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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