Auden, W. H.
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh Auden) (1907–73),English poet and critic. Auden's attention to Shakespeare is continuous. He lectured on Shakespeare in New York in 1946 and in Oxford in 1957 (collected as part of The Dyer's Hand, 1962). His long semi-dramatized poem The Sea and the Mirror (1944) is subtitled ‘A Commentary on Shakespeare's The Tempest’. His introduction to the Sonnets (Signet, 1964) spurns biographical speculation, concentrating on formal and technical questions and the ‘mystical’ Vision of Eros. Love's Labour's Lost, adapted (with Chester Kallman) as an opera libretto from Shakespeare's play, was premièred, with music by Nicolas Nabokov, in Brussels, 1973.
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