Jan 3, 2010
One of the most important poets of the twentieth century, Wystan Hugh Auden (AWD-ehn) was born in York, in northern England, a rugged land of cliffs and escarpments that were to figure as part of his poetic landscape. His father was a prominent physician, his mother a former nurse; Auden was thus reared in a cultivated environment, a background that showed itself in his adoption of aristocratic behavior during his undergraduate career at Oxford University, 1925 to 1928. Originally intending to become a mining engineer, he abandoned this intention to become a poet, though his interest in...
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