Barnaby Martin of Listening In looks at the origin of the incredibly poignant scene from Four Weddings and a Funeral in which a young John Hanna recites the heartbreaking W.H. Auden poem “Stop ...

he has written a study of Auden's poetry using biographical material where it was directly relevant to what the poet was writing. Otherwise Spears is silent about the intriguing life W.H. Auden ...

Although W. H. Auden was shortly to become one of Britain’s best-loved poets, his inclusion in Night Mail was almost an after ...

A capacity crowd overflowed the institute of Geographical Exploration's large lecture room and was forced to move to the New Lecture Hall last night to hear W. H. Auden deliver the last in the ...

W.H. Auden was, in the final decade of his life ... sublime peace in an empty sky. Auden's poetry reminds us it is not perfection or beauty that gives life meaning, but an unflinching acceptance of ...

L ate in his career, the English poet W. H. Auden distilled the whole business of poetry into three pungent lines: “A poet’s ...

This volume contains all of W. H. Auden's prose works from 1949 through 1955, including many little-known essays that exemplify his range, wit, depth, and wisdom. The book includes the complete text ...

Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, "The Sea and the Mirror" is not merely a great poem but ranks as one of the most profound interpretations of Shakespeare's ...

W.H. Auden was, in the final decade of his life, an extraordinarily unattractive man, and was keenly aware of it. "My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain," he told an interviewer in ...

Brenner, Simon Frühwirth, Timo and Mayer, Sandra 2023. Revealing ‘invisible’ poetry by W. H. Auden through computer vision: Using photometric stereo to visualize ...