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Revisiting Auden
Public Discourse
Despite Professor Jacobs's forceful defense of this book, my opinion remains unchanged. Buy Auden's Collected Poems, regularly visit his...
3 days ago
Lit Hub Daily: November 5, 2024
Literary Hub
On Election Day, here's a look at some of the most pressing everyday issues facing Americans: income inequality, the fight for decent jobs,...
1 day ago
Praying the hours with W. H. Auden
The Christian Century
The poetry collection includes a lengthy sequence of poems that I would rate high among the spiritual and devotional classics of the 20th century.
4 months ago
W. H. Auden . . . In Love with Language
The Berkshire Edge
Auden said, “A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” And save for TS Eliot and perhaps Robert Frost.
6 months ago
The imperial W.H. Auden
Washington Examiner
In 1933, the English poet W.H. Auden told his friend Stephen Spender, “I entirely agree with you about my tendency to National Socialism,...
3 months ago
A Poem by W. H. Auden: 'Preface'
The Atlantic
For much of his career, the poet W. H. Auden was known for writing fiercely political work. He critiqued capitalism, warned of fascism,...
8 months ago
WH Auden’s visions of England
New Statesman
Edward Mendelson, WH Auden's literary executor and editor, has called Nicholas Jenkins's The Island “a Copernican revolution” in studies of...
1 month ago
The Island: WH Auden and the Last of Englishness review – a deep dive into the poet’s early years
The Guardian
Nicholas Jenkins's exhaustive volume – part biography, part literary study, part marathon – draws together the many influences on the young writer.
2 months ago
The public W.H. Auden
Washington Examiner
W.H. Auden grasped a source for the authority of his public voice that lay outside the political state.
5 months ago
Can W.H. Auden be called a war poet?
The Spectator
Nicholas Jenkins takes, as a point to navigate by in this rich and ingenious study of the early Auden, a remark by the poet's friend Hannah...
2 months ago