Auden writes a lot about the political and social issues of his time, including World War II. Warren cites one particular poem in the collection, “September 1, 1939″ in which Auden writes ...

While some of Auden’s early poems are engagé leftist, more often there’s a subterranean patriotic current. The early poems, Jenkins writes, “were underwritten by an anti-metropolitan ...

Only later did I learn that they were the opening words of a poem by W.H. Auden, who would become one of my favorite writers. Many readers, admittedly, will be happy with just the Vintage ...

The definitive edition of T. S. Eliot’s poems, edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue, was published in two volumes in 2015—again, 50 years after the poet’s death. Auden died in 1973, and now, ...

Jenkins makes the case that Owen taught Auden the art of pararhyme, this poem in particular; and “Strange Meeting” in fact lends its title to The Island’s section on Berlin, where Auden ...

Auden was a master of the elegy and his poems resonate with readers because they address the essential emotional predicaments that afflict us all. As well as being a literary giant, however ...

Many maps have been offered over the years to assist the reader-quester, but if somebody gets a map out in one of Auden’s poems it’s usually because something has gone wrong. In one lyric a lover is ...

A few years ago, Ian Sansom published a witty confession of failure in the form of an aphoristic “biography” of one of Auden’s most famous works, “September 1, 1939”—a poem composed in New York at the ...

When Auden died in 1973, forty years ago last week, it would have been hard to imagine how popular he would become in the ensuing decades. Morose and solitary, he described himself, in a poem of the ...

COMPLETEWORKS OF W.H. AUDEN POEMS — VOLS I AND II edited by Edward Mendelson (Princeton £48 each, 848pp and 1140pp) In the phenomenally successful film Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994 ...

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Dothan Houston County Library Director Chris Warren joined News4 This Morning to tell us about the newest Chapter Chat pick. April is National Poetry Month, so this month’s ...