W.H. Auden, writing poetry at his home on Fire Island, N.Y., ca. 1946. ... Wystan Hugh Auden was already a writer of national promise when he graduated from Oxford, in 1928.

Yet two able-bodied English poets are now more or less permanently quartered as wage earners in the U. S. Louis MacNeice is teaching at Cornell, Wystan Hugh Auden at Manhattan’s New School for ...

HOMAGE TO CLIO (91 pp.)—W. H. Auden—Random House ($3.50). Wystan Hugh Auden is a chameleon among modern poets. He has moved from Marxism to Anglo-Catholicism, changed with startling ease ...