The lives of all great poets are a part of their poetry and cannot be separated from it. This would be as true of Homer, of whom we know nothing, as it is of Milton or Goethe, Byron or Mandelstam, ...

Sitting in a bar on 52nd Street, WH Auden read in the “folded lie” of a newspaper about the accession of Danzig to the Third Reich. The poem he would write about the events of that night is the ...

The words of W.H. Auden have a way of touching large audiences, abruptly shifting his reputation from the exalted realm of poetry to the broader region of pop culture You can save this article by ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Literary reputations often slump after the deaths of authors, recovering later or not at all. The reputation ...

In a 1960 review of books of poetry by Philip Larkin and Geoffrey Hill, W.H. Auden remarked: “To write about a poet for others who have not yet read him is not criticism but reviewing, and reviewing ...

The Auden Ackroyd is really interested in is the romantic Auden who wrote that gorgeous love poetry and who was distraught at his long-term partner Chester Kallman’s infidelities. “A shilling life ...