Fifty years since the death of WH Auden, Martin Chilton looks back at a legendary British poet still making headlines . Sunday 24 September 2023 08:07 BST. ... almost melancholy wrinkles, ...

As always, exceptions must be made for poets, who according to WH Auden “need the group to feel a little out of as much as the rest need it to be at home in”.

A journal written by WH Auden that for decades was believed lost has been unearthed, shedding new light on a critical year in the life of one of the giants of 20th century poetry.

Fifty years on from the death of one of the 20th century’s greatest poets, WH Auden, Michael Symmons Roberts begins a new three part series by looking at Auden’s political work. Show more It ...

Eric Ormsby reviews “The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose (Vols. 1-6)” edited by Edward Mendelson.

For Nicholas Jenkins, WH Auden’s piercingly brilliant early poems emerge in the devastated wake of the first World War. Although it is absent as a named subject, war is presented as the crucial ...

WH Auden was one of the most important religious poets of the Twentieth Century, but his relationship with faith was never straightforward. His life as an active and proud gay man put him at odds ...