W. H. Auden

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critic essayist librettist person poet

W. H. Auden was a major 20th-century Anglo-American poet known for his technical virtuosity, moral and political engagement, and wide-ranging influence on modern poetry.

Aliases (2)

Auden ×2
Wystan Hugh Auden ×1

Statements (103)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	critic → essayist → librettist → person → poet →
activeYearsEnd	1970s →
activeYearsStart	1920s →
awardReceived	Bollingen Prize → National Book Award for Poetry → Pulitzer Prize for Poetry →
causeOfDeath	heart failure →
citizenship	United Kingdom → United States of America →
coAuthor	Benjamin Britten → Chester Kallman → Christopher Isherwood → Louis MacNeice →
convertedTo	Anglicanism →
countryOfBirth	United Kingdom →
dateOfBirth	1907-02-21 →
dateOfDeath	1973-09-29 →
describedAs	major 20th-century Anglo-American poet →
educatedAt	Christ Church, Oxford → Gresham's School →
employer	Bryn Mawr College → Oxford University NERFINISHED → Swarthmore College → The New School for Social Research → University of Michigan →
familyName	Auden →
fieldOfWork	libretto writing → literary criticism → poetry →
fullName	Wystan Hugh Auden →
genre	dramatic poetry → lyric poetry → occasional poetry →
givenName	Wystan →
hasInfluenceOn	modern poetry →
influenced	James Merrill → John Ashbery → Joseph Brodsky → Philip Larkin → Seamus Heaney →
influencedBy	Gerard Manley Hopkins → Sigmund Freud → T. S. Eliot → W. B. Yeats →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Letters →
movement	Auden Group → modernism →
nationality	American → British →
notableWork	About the House → Another Time → City Without Walls → Collected Poems → For the Time Being → Funeral Blues → Homage to Clio → Horae Canonicae → In Memory of W. B. Yeats → Journey to a War → Letters from Iceland → Lullaby → Musee des Beaux Arts → Nones → Poems (1930) → Secondary Worlds → September 1, 1939 → Thank You, Fog → The Age of Anxiety → The Double Man → The Dyer's Hand → The Orators → The Shield of Achilles →
occupation	essayist → librettist → playwright → poet → teacher →
partner	Chester Kallman →
placeOfBirth	York, England →
placeOfDeath	Vienna, Austria →
religion	Anglicanism →
residence	Birmingham → Kirchstetten, Austria → New York City → Oxford →
sexOrGender	male →
sexualOrientation	gay →
spouse	Erika Mann →
style	formal experimentation → technical virtuosity →
theme	love → modern society → morality → politics → religion → war →
wroteLibrettoFor	Paul Bunyan → The Rake's Progress →

Referenced by (11)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
T. S. Eliot → W.B. Yeats →	influenced
W. H. Auden ("Auden") →	familyName
W. H. Auden ("Wystan Hugh Auden") →	fullName
The Viking Press →	hasAuthorPublished
Christ Church, Oxford →	hasNotableAlumnus
Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts →	hasNotableRecipient
Hal Auden Cumberbatch ("Auden") →	middleName
Poets’ Corner →	notableMemorial
Faber and Faber →	publishedAuthor
Markings →	translator