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collection of Auden's work includes essays, reviews and other writings that Auden published or prepared for delivery from the time he arrived in America in Januaryuntil the end of.
In the following year he wrote his

first book of criticism, The Enchafed Flood, and adopted a new set of themes in his essays and reviews.
Wystan Hugh Auden was an Anglo American poet, best known for love poems such as Funeral Blues, poems on political and social themes such as September,and The Shield of Achilles, poems on cultural and psychological themes such as The Age of Anxiety, and poems on religious themes such as For the Time Being and Horae Canonicae.
He grew up in and near Birmingham in a professional middle class family, He attended English independent or public schools and studied English at Christ Church, Oxford, After a few months in Berlin inhe spent five yearsteaching in English public schools, then travelled to Iceland and China in order to write books about his journeys.
Inhe moved to the United States and became a Wystan Hugh Auden was an Anglo American poet, best known for love poems such as "Funeral Blues," poems on political and social themes such as "September," and "The Shield of Achilles," poems on cultural and psychological themes such as The Age of Anxiety, and poems on religious themes such as For the Time Being and "Horae Canonicae.
" He grew up in and near Birmingham in a professional middle class family, He attended English independent or public schools and studied English at Christ Church, Oxford, After a few months in Berlin inhe spent five yearsteaching in English public schools, then travelled to Iceland and China in order to write books about his journeys.
Inhe moved to the United States and became an American citizen in, He taught fromthroughin American universities, followed by occasional visiting professorships in thes, Fromthroughhe wintered in New York and summered in Ischia fromuntil the end of his life he wintered in New York in Oxford inand summered in Kirchstetten, Austria.
Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form and content.
He came to wide public attention at the age of twenty three, in, with his first book, Poems, followed inby sitelink The Orators .
Three plays written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood inbuilt his reputation as a left wing political writer, Auden moved to the United States partly to escape this reputation, and his work in thes, including the long poems For the Time Being and The Sea and the Mirror, focused on religious themes.
He won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for hislong poem The Age of Anxiety, the title of which became a popular phrase describing the modern era.
Inhe was Professor of Poetry at Oxford his lectures were popular with students and faculty and served as the basis of hisprose collection sitelink The Dyer's Hand.
From aroundtoAuden and Isherwood maintained a lasting but intermittent sexual friendship while both had briefer but intense relations with other men.
InAuden fell in love with Chester Kallman and regarded their relation as a marriage this ended inwhen Kallman refused to accept the faithful relation that Auden demanded, but the two maintained their friendship, and fromuntil Auden's death they lived in the same house or apartment in a non sexual relation, often collaborating on opera libretti such as The Rake's Progress, for music by Igor Stravinsky.
Auden was a prolific writer of prose essays and reviews on literary, political, psychological and religious subjects, and he worked at various times on documentary films, poetic plays, and other forms of performance.
Throughout his career he was both controversial and influential, and critical views on his work ranged from sharply dismissive, treating him as a lesser follower of sitelink W.
B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot, to strongly affirmative, as in Joseph Brodsky's claim that he had "the greatest mind of the twentieth century.
" After his death, some of his poems, notably "Funeral Blues," Musée des Beaux Arts," "Refugee Blues," The Unknown Citizen," and "September,," became known to a much wider public than during his lifetime through films, broadcasts, and popular media.
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