Charles Maxwell

Does withholding knowledge pursue dreams and opportunities? Wystan Hugh Auden, an Anglo-American poet, pursued his dreams and made them into reality. W.H. Auden was one of the leading literacy of the 20th century. Auden’s ideas of poetry came from his environmental experience with war and political turmoil. Not only Auden had writing and English skills, he also understood science and engineering. Furthermore, Wystan Auden had an influential early life, His education led him to success, and being inspired by the poetic justice of English made him a powerful man.
Wystan Auden was born in York, England on February 21st 1907. Eventually, Auden moved with his family to Birmingham, England during the rest of his childhood (Oxford Book of Light Verse, Oxford University Press). Auden’s father was a physician with high knowledge of mythology and passed on his learning to his son. Auden’s mother was a loving and caring mother who supported him through numerous occasions. As a young boy, he was quite interested in poets such as Thomas Hardy and Robert First.
In addition, Auden had early interest in science and engineering which led him a scholarship to Oxford University. Attending Oxford opened many opportunities for Wystan. While attending Oxford, he changed his field into English instead of studying science. At Oxford, Auden became familiar with modernist poetry. Auden graduated from Oxford University in 1928 with high honors (The Poetry Foundation). In addition, Wystan looked into T.S. Elliot work and decided to write his first book. Auden’s first book was published in 1930 with the assistance of T.S. Elliot. The name of the book was called “Poems.” Most of Auden’s work is steered towards moral issues and has a psychological context....

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... idiotic to ask whether such a boring person felt miserable or unfree (Basil Blackwell, 55).
Auden’s poetry was divine and filled with moral value. In 1972, Auden became sick from his bad health and moved out of America. He moved to live in Oxford, in a cottage belonging to his old college, Christ Church (Charles Plumb, Oxford Poetry). In the late 1950s, Auden bought a house in Austria where he spent six months of every year. He died in Austria on September 29th, 1973. Now his legacy lives on throughout his homeland England and throughout the United States.

Works Cited
• http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/w-h-auden o The English Auden: Poems, Essays, and Dramatic Writings, edited by Edward Mendelson, Faber, 1977, Random House, 1978 o Complete works of W.H. Auden, Princeton University Press, 1989
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/auden_wh.shtml