W. H. Auden

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Although well regarded as a playwright and librettist, W. H. Auden is known chiefly as a poet. During his lifetime, he published more than twenty collections of poetry, establishing himself as a major voice in twentieth century literature. His work includes a remarkable variety of lyric poems, notable for their range of thought and technique. Auden also wrote several longer poems, including For the Time Being and The Sea and the Mirror, both of which appeared in a 1944 collection, and The Age of Anxiety (1947). The shorter as well as...

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