W. H. AUDEN

W.H.Auden was a young, sensational English poet of the 1930s who became an elder statesman of Anglo-American literature by the time he died in 1973. He made his reputation while still at Oxford in the 1920s, and by the time he left England for New York to avoid World War II he was considered the spokes-poet of a generation - a  learned, socially conscious and technically brilliant rising star. He became even more famous when  he won the 1948  Pulitzer  for the long poem The Age of Anxiety.  

Critics and scholars still regard Auden as one of the 20th century's great poets, but few of his poems are familiar to mainstream audiences.

His poetry gained new notice in recent years, thanks to the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, which features Auden's poem Funeral Blues ("Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone"). 

You can download a  PDF presentation here.

Now you can watch a documentary film looking at the poetry of W.H.Auden, revealing how it came not just from inspiration but from a rigorous scientific analysis of love itself.