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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
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
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
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
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
Sunday book pick: The poems in WH Auden’s ‘Another Time’ flaunt his talents as a storyteller
Scroll.in
WH Auden (1907–1973) was a British-American poet whose first collection of poetry Poems was published by TS Eliot, the master himself,...
1 month ago
The Island by Nicholas Jenkins review — WH Auden is more fun than you think
The Times
WH Auden is remembered today as the great poet of 20th-century crisis, the most brilliant voice of the uneasy 1930s as that “low dishonest...
2 months ago
How W.H. Auden Made Austria His Adopted Home
Literary Hub
W.H. Auden has become so central to my life over the past forty years that there never appears to have been a time that it could have been...
12 months ago
How I fell in love with WH Auden (again and again)
The Guardian
I first read his poetry in my late teens. He can be difficult but the images he conjures are concrete and recognisable.
82 months ago