Edmund's preparatory school, where he met Christopher Isherwood, who later gained a wide reputation as a novelist.

His mother was a devout Anglican, and the combination of religious and scientific or analytic themes are implicit throughout Auden's work. His father was the medical officer of the city of Birmingham and a psychologist. Wystan Hugh Auden was born on February 21, 1907, in York, England. Works in Biographical and Historical Context But contradictions notwithstanding, he continues to receive recognition as one of the most important poets of the century, and as one of its most representative figures as well. His early poems were praised for their political pertinence as well as their aesthetic modernity, and his later poems were condemned for their religious and political orthodoxy. Noted especially for native lyrical gifts and highly developed technical expertise, he also displayed wide reading and acute intelligence in his poems. His works center on moral issues with strong political, social, and psychological orientations. Auden was a major English poet, one of the most important English-speaking poets born in the twentieth century. He began writing libretti soon after he arrived in America in 1939 and.City Without Walls, and Many Other Poems (1969) Overview

Auden called opera the 'last refuge of the High Style,' and considered it the one art in which the grand manner survived the ironic levelings of modernity. Auden: Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings, 1939-1973 W. Auden wrote during the years when he was living in England, and also includes the full original versions of his two illustrated travel books, Letters from Iceland (written in. This book contains all the essays and reviews that W.

Auden, Volume 1: Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse: 1926-1938 W. He became an American citizen, fell in love with Chester Kallman, and began to reflect on American culture and to. Auden's first ten years in the United States were marked by rapid and extensive change in his life and thought. The book includes the complete text of Auden's first separately published. Auden's prose works from 1949 through 1955, including many little-known essays that exemplify his range, wit, depth, and wisdom. AudenĪ definitive volume of Auden’s prose that includes his important work The Dyer’s Hand The final volume of the complete prose of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers The penultimate volume of the complete prose of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century

The first of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden’s poems-including some that have never been published before The second of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden’s poems-including some that have never been published before

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