Auden joined the Swarthmore faculty in 1942 as a Lecturer in English. He was neither a poet-in-residence nor a creative writing instructor.
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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.
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Wystan Hugh Auden, one of the most significant poets of the 20th century, was born in York, England, in 1907. His early career and works...
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Edward Mendelson, WH Auden's literary executor and editor, has called Nicholas Jenkins's The Island “a Copernican revolution” in studies of...
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Typescript of Phi Beta Kappa address, January 1943. During his years as a professor, Auden lectured outside the classroom on a variety of subjects...
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The poetry collection includes a lengthy sequence of poems that I would rate high among the spiritual and devotional classics of the 20th century.
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For much of his career, the poet W. H. Auden was known for writing fiercely political work. He critiqued capitalism, warned of fascism,...
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Nicholas Jenkins's exhaustive volume – part biography, part literary study, part marathon – draws together the many influences on the young writer.
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WH Auden (1907–1973) was a British-American poet whose first collection of poetry Poems was published by TS Eliot, the master himself,...
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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...
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