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W. H. Auden. Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York, England, the third son of highly educated upper-middle-class parents. His earliest aspiration was to pursue mining engineering, but by age fifteen, he had determined that his life’s ambition was to become a poet. Auden was granted a biology scholarship to Oxford’s Christ Church college, where ...
12. Jan. 1975 · Reflections, by Hannah Arendt, from 1975: “There was nothing more admirable in Auden than his complete sanity and his firm belief in sanity; in his eyes all kinds of madness were lack of ...
15. Aug. 2017 · The words of W.H. Auden have a way of touching large audiences, abruptly shifting his reputation from the exalted realm of poetry to the broader region of pop culture. It’s the sort of happy ...
25. Dez. 2017 · W H Auden said “poetry must be entered into by a personal encounter, or it must be left alone”. His poems have been personal for me for 30 years; they’re a touchstone I use now and then to ...
Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say. I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky. And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.”. ― W.H. Auden, Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957. tags: love , poetry.
He was tall, gangly, awkward, pale, smooth-faced, unkempt, and without personal dignity; he wrote a few years later, ' My face looks like an egg upon a plate ' (W. H. Auden, Letters from Iceland, 1937, 202). His closest friends recognized the shyness and vulnerability hidden beneath a manner that in his early years was sometimes comically extravagant, in later years sometimes comically ...
19. Dez. 2019 · Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and poetry of WH Auden (1907-1973) up to his departure from Europe for the USA in 1939. As well as his personal life, he addressed suffering and confusion ...
