H. Auden called opera the "last refuge of the High Style," and considered it the one art in which the grand manner survived the ironic levelings of modernity. He began writing libretti soon after he ...
Other stories from the National Archives: Yorkshire-born WH Auden was considered ineligible as he had become a US citizen in 1946 He approached leading figures in the arts, as well as dons at ...
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 ...
W.H. Auden remarked once that he was "suspicious of criticism as the literary genre which, more than any other, recruits epigones, pedants without insight, intellectuals without love." A prolific ...
An event in York is to celebrate the work of poet WH Auden. York-born Auden ... “Expect the unexpected,” say the organisers, ...
New To Radio 4 Extra. Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive, and marks the 50th anniversary of the death of the poet, WH Auden (d. 29.09.1973), choosing September 1, 1939 ...
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