Wh auden biography summary worksheet
Wh auden biography summary worksheet
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W.H. Auden
(1907-1973)
Who Was W.H. Auden?
W.H. Auden was a poet, author and playwright.
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Auden was a leading literary influencer in the 20th century. Known for his chameleon-like ability to write poems in almost every verse form, Auden's travels in countries torn by political strife influenced his early works. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948.
Early Life
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Auden was born Wystan Hugh Auden in York, England, on February 21, 1907. Raised by a physician father and a strict, Anglican mother, Auden pursued science and engineering at Oxford University before finding his calling to write and switching his major to English.
Auden pursued his love of poetry, influenced by Old English verse and the poems of Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, William Blake and Emily Dickinson.
He graduated from Oxford in 1928, and that same year, his collection Poems was privately printed.
Career Success
In 1930, with the help of T.S. Eliot, Auden published another collection of the same name (Poems