Some of WH Auden’s couplets have the familiarity of poetry catchphrases. Even as a youngster, Auden had a startling capacity for colourful language. “Mrs Carritt, this tea is like tepid pi ...

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 ...

Jenkins finds glimpses of the crippled and the maimed in Auden’s elliptical early poetry, and draws a vivid sketch of the poet’s psychiatrist father Dr Auden, whose years at the front had a ...

Downing Street rejected WH Auden for poet laureate over a "filthy" poem that graphically described gay sex, unearthed documents have revealed. In 1972, Number 10 officials told then-Prime Minister ...

Years ago, I was doggedly answering the questions on a standardized high school achievement test when I was asked to identify the poetic device employed in the following stanza: “ ‘O where are ...

Jilted by his handsome younger lover, Chester Kallman, Auden took leave of all worldly pleasures, living out his last few years in a small town near Vienna. The obituaries of the enfant terrible of ...

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a poet, poetry was that which “makes nothing happen”. Arnold Bennett, a writer, ...

it is no more unconventional than the poems that Auden writes—and to a lesser degree, MacNeice. Traditionally, poems are composed as soliloquies in some one quarter of a poet’s mind ...

For 25 years, Sansom said, he had wanted to write “a big book about Auden’s life and work, a truly great book”—but eventually settled for “a short book about just one of his poems”. Jenkins has not ...

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, ...

April is National Poetry Month, so this month’s pick is a book of selected poetry from W. H. Auden. W. H. Auden is a 20th-century poet, born in England before immigrating to the United States in ...