W.H. Auden






W.H. Auden

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born
February 21, 1907

died
September 29, 1973

gender
male

place of birth
York, The United Kingdom

genre
Poetry

influences
Icelandic Sagas

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W.H. Auden: Selected Poems W.H. Auden: Selected Poems
by W.H. Auden
avg rating 4.23 — 408 ratings — published 1979
8 editions
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Collected Poems: Auden Collected Poems: Auden
by W.H. Auden
avg rating 4.39 — 312 ratings — published 1976
8 editions
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As I Walked Out One Evening: S... As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks, and Other Light Verse
by W.H. Auden
avg rating 4.36 — 77 ratings — published 1995
3 editions
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Auden: Poems Auden: Poems
by W.H. Auden
avg rating 4.25 — 75 ratings — published 1995
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The Dyer's Hand The Dyer's Hand
by W.H. Auden
avg rating 4.36 — 61 ratings — published 1990
3 editions
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Tell Me the Truth About Love Tell Me the Truth About Love
by W.H. Auden
avg rating 4.24 — 46 ratings — published 1994
5 editions
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The Sea and the Mirror: A Comm... The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare's "The Tempest"
by W.H. Auden
avg rating 4.27 — 26 ratings — published 2003
2 editions
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Lectures on Shakespeare Lectures on Shakespeare
by W.H. Auden, Arthur Kirsch
avg rating 4.27 — 26 ratings — published 2001
2 editions
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Letters from Iceland Letters from Iceland
by W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice
avg rating 3.87 — 23 ratings — published 1969
4 editions
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The Living Thoughts of Kierkeg... The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard (New York Review Books Classics)
by W.H. Auden
avg rating 3.74 — 23 ratings — published 1999
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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh."
W.H. Auden
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"The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good."
W.H. Auden (Selected Poems)
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"Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good."
W.H. Auden (Selected Poems)
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