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.
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