W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) who signed his wor… Read Full Bio ↴Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) who signed his works W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, born in England, later an American citizen, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. His work is noted for its stylistic and technical achievements, its engagement with moral and political issues, and its variety of tone, form and content. The central themes of his poetry are love, politics and citizenship, religion and morals, and the relationship between unique human beings and the anonymous, impersonal world of nature.
Auden grew up in Birmingham in a professional middle class family and read English literature at Christ Church, Oxford. His early poems, written in the late 1920s and early 1930s, alternated between telegraphic modern styles and fluent traditional ones, were written in an intense and dramatic tone, and established his reputation as a left-wing political poet and prophet. He became uncomfortable in this role in the later 1930s, and abandoned it after he moved to the United States in 1939, where he became an American citizen in 1946. His poems in the 1940s explored religious and ethical themes in a less dramatic manner than his earlier works, but still combined traditional forms and styles with new forms devised by Auden himself. In the 1950s and 1960s many of his poems focused on the ways in which words revealed and concealed emotions, and he took a particular interest in writing opera librettos, a form ideally suited to direct expression of strong feelings.
He was also a prolific writer of prose essays and reviews on literary, political, psychological and religious subjects, and he worked at various times on documentary films, poetic plays and other forms of performance. Throughout his career he was both controversial and influential. After his death, some of his poems, notably “Funeral Blues” (“Stop all the clocks”) and “September 1, 1939”, became widely known through films, broadcasts and popular media.
Auden grew up in Birmingham in a professional middle class family and read English literature at Christ Church, Oxford. His early poems, written in the late 1920s and early 1930s, alternated between telegraphic modern styles and fluent traditional ones, were written in an intense and dramatic tone, and established his reputation as a left-wing political poet and prophet. He became uncomfortable in this role in the later 1930s, and abandoned it after he moved to the United States in 1939, where he became an American citizen in 1946. His poems in the 1940s explored religious and ethical themes in a less dramatic manner than his earlier works, but still combined traditional forms and styles with new forms devised by Auden himself. In the 1950s and 1960s many of his poems focused on the ways in which words revealed and concealed emotions, and he took a particular interest in writing opera librettos, a form ideally suited to direct expression of strong feelings.
He was also a prolific writer of prose essays and reviews on literary, political, psychological and religious subjects, and he worked at various times on documentary films, poetic plays and other forms of performance. Throughout his career he was both controversial and influential. After his death, some of his poems, notably “Funeral Blues” (“Stop all the clocks”) and “September 1, 1939”, became widely known through films, broadcasts and popular media.
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A New Year Greeting Sitting here Lying here Nothing is made forever Purse my lip…
A Walk After Dark Etter mørket faller over vann og land Så blir det fest…
As I Walked out One Evening As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, Th…
Ballad I was 14 when I first smoked weed On my best…
Happiness 한 번도 난 너를 잊어본 적 없어 오직 그대만을 생각했는걸 그런 너는…
I Knew a Woman We never knew What the future holds Together we knew That we…
If I Could Tell You Distance There is way too much distance Between the love tha…
In Memory of W.B. Yeats I He disappeared in the dead of winter: The brooks were fro…
In Our Time We have a Problem We have to go back in…
Introduction to As He Is *Yes He Is )He: s Coming Back* I don:t know why…
Law Like Law Life had done did me so dirty I'm thinking that it…
Law Like Love Oh my love is like a red red rose, that's…
Lullaby Come and see The night that softly bleed Just come and stay …
Moon Landing Chorus: Big chilling, causeI’m landing on the moon, Can’t te…
Ode To My Shoes Yeah, we on Yo, I read some shit on Google cuz…
Our Hunting Fathers Our Father (Our Father who art in heaven) Hallowed (Hallowed…
Prayer Teach us to pray, as John did before you Please Teach…
Scars It's dust in my thoughts My trust is getting lost Found love…
The More Loving One I'll never stop loving you Whatever else I may do My love…
W. H. Auden Hark! the herald angels sing, Glory to the newborn King, p…