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.

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Connections 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 .
Williams, Mary-Kay. “What a Mother”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 23, 3 Dec. 2015, p. 19021.
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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
and the quality she was aiming at, a clarity, a kind of lyrical innocence...
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 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 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.
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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...
Textual Production Hannah Arendt
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
Textual Production 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.
and in...
Textual Production Amabel Williams-Ellis
Contributors included Nancy Cunard , Winifred Holtby , Storm Jameson , Pamela Hansford Johnson , Naomi Mitchison , Sylvia Townsend Warner , W. H. Auden , John Lehmann , and John Strachey .
Textual Production 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, 1998.
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early poems of her near-contemporary Adrienne Rich . She wrote two stage works that were performed...

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