W.H. Auden

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W.H. Auden


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

Died
September 29, 1973

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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
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Selected Poems

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4.19 avg rating — 7,270 ratings — published 1972 — 39 editions
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Collected Poems

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4.27 avg rating — 6,027 ratings — published 1976 — 36 editions
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Tell Me the Truth about Love

3.94 avg rating — 1,603 ratings — published 1994 — 24 editions
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Auden: Poems (Everyman's Li...

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The Dyer's Hand and Other E...

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As I Walked Out One Evening...

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Another Time

4.13 avg rating — 342 ratings — published 1940 — 21 editions
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The Age of Anxiety: A Baroq...

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Collected Shorter Poems, 19...

4.15 avg rating — 298 ratings — published 1966 — 25 editions
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For the Time Being: A Chris...

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Quotes by W.H. Auden  (?)
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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

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

“We must love one another or die”
W.H. Auden

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