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W.H. Auden


Born
in York, England, The United Kingdom
February 21, 1907

Died
September 29, 1973

Genre
Poetry

Influences
T.S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Thomas Hardy, Laura (Riding) Jackso ...more


Poems, published in such collections as Look, Stranger! (1936) and The Shield of Achilles (1955), established importance of British-American writer and critic Wystan Hugh Auden in 20th-century literature.

In and near Birmingham, he developed in a professional middle-class family. He attended English independent schools and studied at Christ church, Oxford. From 1927, Auden and Christopher Isherwood maintained a lasting but intermittent sexual friendship despite briefer but more intense relations with other men. Auden passed a few months in Berlin in 1928 and 1929.

He then spent five years from 1930 to 1935, teaching in English schools and then traveled to Iceland and China for books about his journeys. People noted stylistic and tec ...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 37,111 ratings · 2,928 reviews · 601 distinct works • Similar authors
Selected Poems
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4.19 avg rating — 7,536 ratings — published 1972 — 47 editions
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Collected Poems
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4.27 avg rating — 6,137 ratings — 36 editions
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Tell Me the Truth about Love
3.89 avg rating — 1,939 ratings — published 1994 — 24 editions
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Auden: Poems
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4.22 avg rating — 744 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions
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The Dyer's Hand and Other E...
4.29 avg rating — 424 ratings — published 1962 — 35 editions
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Another Time
4.14 avg rating — 417 ratings — published 1940 — 23 editions
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As I Walked Out One Evening...
4.16 avg rating — 375 ratings — 5 editions
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The Age of Anxiety: A Baroq...
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4.02 avg rating — 383 ratings — published 1947 — 19 editions
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For the Time Being: A Chris...
4.48 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 1945 — 15 editions
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Collected Shorter Poems, 19...
4.15 avg rating — 317 ratings — published 1966 — 30 editions
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“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
― W.H. Auden
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“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter
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“We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden
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