W.h.auden
- 1. SHRI BALAJI INFOTECH Wystan Hugh Auden (W. H. Auden) By Payal Mudliar You Tube Channel
- 2. W. H. Auden W. H. Auden, in full Wystan Hugh Auden, born in February 21, 1907, at York, Yorkshire, England. He was died in September 29, 1973,at Vienna, Austria. He was English-born poet and man of letters who achieved early fame in the
- 3. W. H. Auden Most of his verse dramas of this period were written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood. In 1939 Auden settled in the United States, becoming a U.S. citizen. In 1908 Auden’s family moved to Birmingham, where his father became
- 4. W. H. Auden Auden intended to be a mining engineer and was interested primarily in science; he specialized in biology. By 1922 he had discovered his vocation as a poet, and two years later his first poem was published in Public School Verse.
- 5. W. H. Auden In 1925 he entered the University of Oxford (Christ Church), where he established a formidable reputation as poet and sage, having a strong influence on such other literary intellectuals as C. Day Lewis (named poet laureate in
- 6. W. H. Auden Though their names were often linked with his as poets of the so-called Auden generation, the notion of an “Auden Group” dedicated to revolutionary politics was largely a journalistic invention. He fell in love with the German
- 7. W. H. Auden He returned to become a schoolmaster in Scotland and England for the next five years. In his Collected Shorter Poems Auden divides his career into four periods. The first extends from 1927, when he was still an undergraduate, through The
- 8. W. H. Auden The poems are uneven and often obscure, pulled in contrary directions by the subjective impulse to fantasy, the mythic and unconscious, and the objective impulse to a diagnosis of the ills of society and the psychological and moral defects of the individuals
- 9. W. H. Auden Though the social and political implications of the poetry attracted most attention, the psychological aspect is primary. The notion of poetry as a kind of therapy, performing a function
- 10. W. H. Auden The second period, 1933–38, is that in which Auden was the hero of the left In On This Island (1937; in Britain, Look, Stranger!, 1936) his verse became more open in texture and accessible to a larger public.
- 11. W. H. Auden Auden also wrote commentaries for documentary films, including a classic of that genre In the third period, 1939–46, Auden became an American citizen and underwent decisive changes in his religious
- 12. W. H. Auden Another Time (1940) contains some of his best songs and topical verse, and The Double Man embodies his position on the verge of commitment to Christianity The fourth period began in 1948, when Auden established the pattern of leaving New York
- 13. W. H. Auden In the early 1930s W.H. Auden was acclaimed prematurely by some as the foremost poet then writing in English, Auden was, as a poet, far more copious and varied than Eliot and far more uneven. He tried to interpret the times, to diagnose the ills of society and deal with
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