Collected Poems by W.H. Auden5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Throughout his career, he collaborated with Christopher Isherwood and Louis MacNeice, and also frequently joined with Chester Kallman to create libretti for musical works by Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Auden’s poetry is considered versatile and inventive, ranging from the tersely epigrammatic to book-length verse, and incorporating a vast range of scientific knowledge. Some critics have called Auden an anti-Romantic-a poet of analytical clarity who sought for order, for universal patterns of human existence. While the teachings of Marx and Freud weighed heavily in his early work, they later gave way to religious and spiritual influences. Much of his poetry is concerned with moral issues and evidences a strong political, social, and psychological context. Auden won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for The Age of Anxiety. Just before World War II broke out, Auden emigrated to the United States where he met the poet Chester Kallman, who became his lifelong lover. ![]() His first book, Poems, was published in 1930 with the help of T.S. Auden grew up in Birmingham, England and was known for his extraordinary intellect and wit. English poet, playwright, critic, and librettist Wystan Hugh Auden exerted a major influence on the poetry of the 20th century. ![]()
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