Dec 22, 2009

The Poetry of Auden | The Poetry of Auden

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Author: W. H. Auden
Type of Work: Poetry
Genres: Poetry
Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Christianity, Catholics or Catholic Church

Critical Evaluation:

W. H. Auden, for twenty years ranked among the best modern poets, is, like his contemporary T. S. Eliot, the product of both the English and the American traditions. Auden was raised in the industrial midlands of England and educated at Oxford during the bleak 1930’s. There he became one of a group of young poets, including C. Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, and Christopher Isherwood, who directed their writing toward a search for meaning in a world which seemed to them empty and mechanical.

Growing up during the great depression, when...

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The Poetry of Auden | The Poetry of Auden

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