POET
W. H. Auden
BIOGRAPHY
W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden (1907-1973) grew up in Birmingham, England and was known for his extraordinary intellect and wit. His first book, Poems, was published in 1930 with the help of T.S. Eliot. 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. Auden won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for The Age of Anxiety.
POEMS
AUDIO
Poetry Off the Shelf
Make a Shield for My Son
J.D. McClatchy on Auden during wartime, and a reading by Auden of "The Shield of Achilles."
ARTICLES ABOUT W. H. AUDEN
To Infuse (As Life) By Breathing
by Elaine Segal
Facing a grim diagnosis, a man has a charmed collision with a poem.
In Search of the Auden Martini
by Rosie Schaap
How to make a cocktail beautiful, humanizing, and good.
