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Auden, Wystan Hugh [W. H. Auden] (1907–1973), poet and writer, was born at 54 Bootham, York, on 21 February 1907, the youngest of three children (all sons) of George Augustus Auden (1872–1957), general practitioner, and his wife, Constance Rosalie, née Bicknell (1869–1941).
The Age of Anxiety. The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1947; first UK edition, 1948) is a long poem in six parts by W. H. Auden, written mostly in a modern version of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse . The poem deals, in eclogue form, with man's quest to find substance and identity in a shifting and increasingly industrialized world.
24. Nov. 2023 · This biography explores Auden’s life in depth, looking at the significant events that molded his creative vision and the poetry’s continuing influence. Early Life and Education: W. H. Auden was born into a middle-class family.Constance Rosalie Auden was born into a well-to-do family, while her father, George Augustus Auden, was a physician ...
Constance Auden (1869-1941) was the mother of the poet, W. H. Auden (1907-1973), who was born in York. She married George Augustus Auden in Kensington, London in 1899 and died in Birmingham, aged 72. She had trained (but never served) as a missionary nurse, whilst her husband was a physician. The Audens were minor gentry with a strong clerical tradition. W. H. Auden wrote For the Time Being: A ...
George Augustus Auden, father of W.H. Auden, found a sarcophagus and two Greek inscriptions, and helped identify the Greek city of Alopekonnesos during an August offensive to the north. And the ...
George Augustus Auden (1872-1957) was educated at Repton and at Christ's College, Cambridge, taking a first-class degree in natural sciences in 1893. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and qualified in medicine in 1896. He held several medical appointments in London before moving to York, where he was physician at York County Hospital for fourteen years. His son W. H ...
George Augustus Auden, W. H. Auden's father, may have used his to supplement the probably somewhat meagre municipal salary he received as the Chief Medical Officer of Birmingham. W. H. Auden's parents were unconventional in many ways, but their independence of mind was buttressed, at least in part, by the profits canny businessmen and administrators had accrued in the not far-distant family past.
