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He also co-wrote three plays with Christopher Isherwood. Auden wrote passionately about social problems and post-World War I anxiety. Based on an article on the Koymasky website. W H Auden (Wystan Hugh Auden, ) was a poet, critic and scholar.

Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York in His father was a prosperous doctor in private practice, though shortly after Wystan was born he took a big pay cut to become Birmingham’s School Medical Officer.

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Friends regarded the Audens as mildly eccentric, more interested in the arts and sciences than in material possession­s. That same year, Auden met and fell in love with fellow poet Chester Kallman (). Navigation menu Personal tools Log in.

He never wrote about his homosexuality except for a few poems which he did not publicly acknowledge, but he was not closeted in his life outside the public sphere. This page was last modified on 5 Julyat This page has been accessed 7, times. We was born in York, the younghest son of a doctor and a nurse, he grew up in Birmingham and was educated at St Edmund's School, Hindhead, Surrey, where he met Christopher Isherwood, Gresham's School, Norfolk, where he met Robert Medley, and Christ Church, Oxford.

Inthe 32 year-old Auden met in a swimming bath a handsome 18 year-old youth, Chester Kallman from Brooklin, and they fell in love. By the s his writing had become well known, and in he moved to the United States. Auden held the Oxford chair in poetry from to returning as an honorary fellow in ; he also taught, read his poems, and lectured at colleges across the United States and England, encouraging young poets.

Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content. Categories : Stubs Poets births deaths.

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Reproduction for sale or profit prohibited. Although Wystan Hugh Auden (–73) emigrated to the United States just before World War II and eventually became an American citizen, he always retained his roots in upper-class England, and his poetry reflects the intellectual ideals of Oxford University and the religious commitments of Anglicanism.

Auden collaborated with Kallman, who became a poet, on opera librettist. Wystan Hugh Auden (/ ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən / WIST-ən HYOO AWD-ən; 21 February – 29 September [1]) was a British-American poet. History W.H. Auden (Wystan Hugh Auden; ) was born in York, England.

He regarded his relationship with Kallman as a marriage. Views Read View source View history. His daring technique, influenced by Hopkins and Eliot, opened the way for younger writers. Jump to: navigationsearch. Although born in England, during his lifetime Auden lived in Germany where he saw Nazism's risethe United States immigrating inhe became a citizen inItaly, and Austria.

Namespaces Page Discussion. Even though Kallman had other relationships and affairs, they had a year-long, stormy relationship, up to Auden's death. His books of poems include Poems ; The Orators, an English Study ; Journey to a Warwhich expressed his political and anti-war sentiments; Another Timewhich "contains lighter and more romantic verse;" and The Age of Anxietywhich won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry however, his earlier work is viewed by some critics as his best work.