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Auden, W(ystan) H(ugh)
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Auden, W(ystan) H(ugh) (1907–73), English poet (later an American citizen) and in his early days a playwright. His first play,
The Dance of Death (1935), was produced by the
Group Theatre in London in a double bill with T. S.
Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes. The same company produced the three satirical left-wing verse plays which Auden then wrote in collaboration with the novelist Christopher Isherwood:
The Dog beneath the Skin (1935), which has musical choruses;
The Ascent of F6 (1936), which describes the symbolic climbing of a mountain in a mixture of prose and poetry, including pop songs; and
On the Frontier (1938), with music by Benjamin Britten. Auden also provided the libretti for several operas, and in 1958 prepared a modern verse adaptation of the medieval music-drama
The Play of Daniel.
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Lunching on Olympus: my meals with W. H. Auden, E. M. Forster, Philip Larkin, and William Empson.(Books)
Magazine article from: American Scholar; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; The British writers W. H. Auden, E. M. Forster, Philip Larkin...to their humanity and kindness. W. H. AUDEN: "Oh, don't bother much about...I asked Cerf who that was. 'W. H. Auden. He is trying to get him to write...
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W. H. AUDEN: The poet and his prose in the English years.(Books)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 2/9/1997; 700+ words
; The complete edition of W.H. Auden's works is well under way. The...for American readers to associate Auden with poor dreary England, communism...1983, I attended "A Tribute to W.H. Auden" at the Guggenheim Museum in New...
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W.H. Auden: Contexts for Poetry.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; W. H. Auden: Contexts for Poetry. By PETER FIRCHOW...It began as an essay aimed to 'debunk Auden's early poetry' for what Firchow thought...never entirely comfortable when discussing Auden's politics in the 1930s, happily, the...
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W.H. Auden: Towards a Postmodern Poetics.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; W. H. Auden: Towards a Postmodern Poetics. By RAINER...from the premise that today the poetry of Auden 'rarely troubles serious academic debates' and that 'Auden's poems have [...] not been MLR...
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W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman: Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings by W.H. Auden, 1939-1973.
Magazine article from: Notes; 3/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; If W.H. Auden had not cowritten the libretto for Igor...Beginning with The Rake's Progress Auden wrote his librettos with Chester Kallman, whose chief profession was being Auden's companion, but who also published...
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The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden. Ed. by Stan Smith. Cambridge...spirit with Ian Sansom's 'Auden and Influence', a lively...perhaps for more material on Auden's debts to such figures...Thomas Hardy, and D. H. Lawrence, but otherwise...
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The Hidden Law: The Poetry of W.H. Auden.
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 12/17/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...is a fascinating study of W. H. Auden, not simply because Anthony...in The Hidden Law concern Auden's widely misunderstood...commentary on "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" and its famous...his own (and implicitly, Auden's) richer understanding...
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Master of disguise Amid revived critical interest, a fine new study of W.H. Auden
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/4/1993; ; 700+ words
; THE HIDDEN LAW The Poetry of W. H. Auden By Anthony Hecht. Harvard University Press. 484 pp...opening pages of this masterly study of the poetry of W. H. Auden, Anthony Hecht cites a comic though discordant wrangle...
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The Table Talk of W.H. Auden.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 2/9/1991; 700+ words
; ...serious of 20th-century poets, W.H. Auden was also the most frivolous. He...School in New York, Kaliman had left Auden for another man, and the poet...old girls. "The Table Talk of W.H. Auden", from which the above is a brief...
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Mapping the mind and the body: on W.H. Auden's personifications.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Style; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...will of one by being two At every moment is denied." (W. H. Auden, "The Sea and The Mirror," Collected 413) 1. Introduction...of emotions, and the use of mind or body metaphors. W. H. Auden is one case in point since he was forever writing about...
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W. H. Auden
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
W. H. Auden (Wystan Hugh Auden) , 1907-73, Anglo...Hand and Other Essays (1968). In 1939, Auden moved to the United States, he became...Mendelson, ed., The Complete Works of W. H. Auden (Vol. 1, 1997; Vol. 2, 2002); biographies...
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Auden, W. H.
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
W. H. Auden Born: February 21, 1907 York, England...poet The English-born American poet W. H. Auden was one of the greatest poets of the twentieth...disappear in his later poetry. In the 1930s W. H. Auden became famous when literary journalists...
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Auden, W.H.
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Auden, W.H. ( Wystan Hugh ) (1907–73...of the major poets of the 20th century. Auden's first volume of poetry, Poems (1930...Day-Lewis , and Christopher Isherwood . Auden and Isherwood collaborated on a series of...
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Auden, W(ystan) H(ugh)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Auden, W[ystan] H[ugh] (1907–73), British...affected by Marxism, an interest that Auden called “more psychological...China, with Isherwood's prose balancing Auden's verse. This decade and this period...
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Wystan Hugh Auden
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Wystan Hugh Auden The English-born American poet W. H. Auden (1907-1973) was one of the preeminent...psychological orientations. In the 1930s W. H. Auden became famous when he was described by...
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