Cameron Stewart

''A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.''
Auden and great poet for, the 20th century. Auden was leading literary influence in the 20th century. Auden was known for his great ability to write poems in almost every verse. Auden's travels in countries torn by political strife encourage his early work. In 1948 Auden won the Pulitzer Prize. Auden's literary genius was greatly expressed throughout his early life, flourishing career, and his noble poetry.
Auden early life as a poet, playwright, and author began at the age of fifteenth. Auden was born Wystan Hugh Auden to Constance Rosalie Auden and George Augustus Auden. Auden was born in a town call York, England. While as a young writer Auden was known as the Anglo-American. Young Auden was born February 21, 1907. Education was one of the key for success for Auden. Auden pursued science and engineering while at Oxford University. Auden enter his first boarding school which was name St. Edmund School. He publish his first poems in Oxford magazine. Auden discovered his talent for writing at the age of thirteen and the life of a great poet began there. Most of Auden poems were in 19 century romantic styles. At 18 Auden discovered T.S Eliot and adopted his styles of writing.
(www.poet.org/ /poet/W.DAuden)

Auden's flourishing career as a poet didn’t start off so well for him from the begging. In 1940 Auden wrote a poem call New Year Letter. Auden wrote his first book called Poems which was published in 1928. Another one of Auden poems is the The Double Man. Auden continued to write dramatic poems 1942 thru 1947. In the meantime Auden wrote his first separate book that was called The Enchafed Flood. Auden poems in the latter half of the...

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... to his home town York, England. W.H. Auden severed as a chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1953 to 1973. In 1972, Auden decline health did not allow him to travel as much as he used to. He live in a cottage that belong to his old college when he first move back to England. In the late 1950's Auden brought a house in Austria. He later died in 1973 in Vienna, Austria and he was buried in Kirchstetter, Austria.
(Auden pg. 133)

Work Cited Page

1. www.Audensocirty.org/poems.html
2. www.openculture.com/poems.html
3. Auden, W.H. “Musee des Beaux Arts” The Language of Literature. Ed McDougal Littell Inc. United of America, 2006
4. Auden, W.H. “Letters from Iceland” Faber and Faber, London, 1937
5. Auden, W.H. “ For the time being” Random House, 1949; Faber, London ,1945