W. H. Auden
21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973
Wystan Hugh Auden was an English-American poet whose work ranged over politics, love, religion and morality in a wide variety of forms and tones. He became a leading figure of 1930s English poetry, moved to the United States in 1939 and took American citizenship in 1946. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Anxiety and served as Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
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Life events
He was the third son of a physician and a nurse.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe went up to read natural science and English, graduating with a third-class degree.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe collection established his reputation among younger English poets.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe marriage of convenience gave Mann a British passport to leave Nazi Germany.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe spent several weeks in Republican Spain and afterwards published the poem Spain.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe settled in New York and met Chester Kallman the same year.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe was naturalised after the Second World War.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe long poem in alliterative verse was published in 1947.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe held the five-year chair while continuing to live abroad much of the time.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAuden died of heart failure after giving a reading, at the age of 66.
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