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W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden

(1907-1973)

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Poetry by W.H. Auden

The Orators prose and verse (1932)
Another Time (1940)
The Double Man (1941)
Collected Poetry (1945)
Collected Shorter PoemsNones (1952)
1930-1944 (1950)
About the House About the House (1965)
Academic Graffiti (1971)
City without Walls (1969)
Collected Longer Poems (1968)
Collected Poems (1991)
Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 (1966)
Epistle to a Godson (1972)
For the Time Being (1944)
Homage to Clio (1960)
Look, Stranger! in America: On This Island (1936)
Poems (1930)
Selected Poems (1979)
Selected Poetry (1956)
Spain (1937)
Thank You, Fog: Last Poems (1974)
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1947)
The Old Man's Road (1956)
The Quest (1941)
The Sea and the Mirror (1944)
The Shield of Achilles (1955)

W.H. Auden, an English born poet was born in York, England, in 1907. He made a remarkable contribution and best known for variety of his works W.H. Auden has written the best ballads, blues, limericks, sonnets, nonsense verse, oratorios, free verse, librettos (words) for operas and dramas.

As an amateur poet in his younger days, he was influenced by the poetry of Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Old English verse. He had a remarkable wit and often mimicked the writing styles of these poets.

In 1928, Auden published his first book of verse, and his collection Poems, published in 1930, established him as the leading voice of a new generation. He visited Germany, Iceland, and China, served in the Spanish Civil war, and in 1939 moved to the United States, where he met his lover, Chester Kallman.

In Oxford University, Auden was the leader of a group of brilliant writers. Later he turned to Christianity and psychoanalysis as a partial solutions to the problems of civilization. Auden settled in US in 1939 and later became a US citizen.

Auden has remarkable contribution but the most known collaboration was with Christopher Isherwood on travel books and several symbolic and satirical plays in the 1930s. This included The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935) and The Ascent of F6 (1936). He also helped to write Libretto to a Russian composer Igor Stravinsky's Opera The Rake's Progress. Many of his essays were published in The Dyer's Hand (1963).

W. H. Auden was a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1954 to 1973, and divided most of the second half of his life between residences in New York City and Austria. He died in Vienna in 1973.

Prose

Letters from Iceland (1937)
Journey to a War (1939)
Enchaféd Flood (1950)
The Dyer's Hand (1962)
Selected Essays (1964)
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)

Anthology

Selected Poems by Gunnar Ekelöf (1972)

Drama

On the Frontier (1938)
Paid On Both Sides (1928)
The Dog Beneath the Skin: or, Where is Francis? (1935)
The Ascent of F.6 (1936)
The Dance of Death (1933)