Brit-turned-American writer WH Auden was a man of many letters. Born in this day in , Auden's literary contributions are vast and myriad. In the s he penned plays about hero worship and.
W H Auden (Wystan Hugh Auden, ) was a poet, critic and scholar. We was born in York, the younghest son of a doctor and a nurse, he grew up in Birmingham and was educated at St Edmund's School, Hindhead, Surrey, where he met Christopher Isherwood, Gresham's School, Norfolk, where he met Robert Medley, and Christ Church, Oxford.
The National Endowment for the Humanities has funded numerous projects related to W. H. Auden, including a $50, grant to scholar Bonnie Costello to study Auden’s poetry (resulting in the book from Princeton University Press The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others). Additionally, Swarthmore College received a grant of $5, to help preserve the library’s special.
W. H. Auden, () Described by Edward Mendelson as “the most inclusive poet of the twentieth century, its most technically skilled, and its most truthful,” Auden is the first major poet to incorporate modern psychological insights and paradigms as a natural element of his work and thought.