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Wystan Hugh Auden (/ ˈ w ɪ s t ən ˈ h juː ˈ ɔː d ən /; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 [1]) was a British-American poet. 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.
Homage to Clio is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1960. The book contains Auden's shorter poems written between 1955 and 1959, including a group of poems on historical themes first published as a pamphlet titled The Old Man's Road (1956). The book contains three parts: a group of short poems, "Dichtung und Wahrheit: An Unwritten ...
Auden refused to title his early work because he wanted the reader to confront the poetry itself. Consequently, his first book was called simply Poems when it was printed by his friend and fellow poet Stephen Spender in 1928; he used the same title for the very different book published by Faber and Faber in 1930 (2nd ed. 1933), and by Random ...
The Orators is divided into three main sections, framed by "Prologue" and "Epilogue" (each a short poem). Part I is " The Initiates " and comprises four speeches in dramatic prose. Part II is " Journal of an Airman ", in prose with interpolated verses, in the form of a diary of an airman (or of someone who fantasizes himself to be an airman).
First edition (US) The Double Man is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1941.The title of the UK edition, published later the same year was New Year Letter.. The Double Man begins with a verse "Prologue" ("O season of repetition and return"), followed by a long three-part philosophical poem in octosyllabic couplets, New Year Letter and an idiosyncratic set of "Notes" to the poem in ...
[6] [7] Auden then included the poem in his poetry collection Another Time (Random House, 1940) [8] as one of four poems headed "Four Cabaret Songs for Miss Hedli Anderson"; the poem itself was titled "Funeral Blues". [9] The poem appeared in Auden's 1945 Collected Poetry [10] as Song No. XXX, [11] and was similarly untitled in the 1950 and ...
For the Time Being (New York, 1944; London, 1945; two long poems: "The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare's The Tempest", dedicated to James and Tania Stern, and "For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio", in memoriam Constance Rosalie Auden [Auden's mother]). The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden (New York, 1945; includes new poems ...
"The Unknown Citizen" is a poem written by W. H. Auden in 1939, shortly after he moved from England to the United States.The poem was first published on January 6, 1940 in The New Yorker, and first appeared in book form in Auden's collection Another Time (Random House, 1940).