W H Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York, North Yorkshire, as the son of George Augustus Auden, a distinguished physician, and Rosalie (Bicknell) Auden. Solihull in the West Midlands, where Auden was brought up, remained important to him as a poet. Auden was educated at St. Edmunds Hindhood and then at Greshams School, Holt, Norfolk. In 1925 he entered Christ Church, Oxford. Audens studies and writing progressed without much success: he took a disappointing third-class degree in English. And his first collection of poems was spurned by T. S. Eliot at Faber & Faber. At one time in his undergraduate years he planned to become a biologist. From 1928 to 1929 he lived in Berlin, where he took advantage of the sexually noble atmosphere, and was introduced to the psychological theories of Homer Lane. After returning to England Auden taught at a prep school, in 1930 privately in London, at Larchfield Academy, a boys school in Helensburgh (Scotland), and at Downs School, Colwall, Herefordshire in 1932-35. He was ply member of GPO film Unit (1935-36), making documentaries such as Night Mail (1935). Music for this film was provided by Benjamin Brittein, with whom Auden collaborated on the song-cycle Our Hunting Fathers and on the unsuccessful folk-opera Paul Bunyan.

In 1936 Auden traveled in Iceland with Louis MacNeice - Auden believed himself to be of Icelandic descent. Auden first gained attention in 1930 when his forgetful verse play called \Paid on Both Sides\ was published in T. S. Eliots periodical The Criterion. In the same year appeared Audens POEMS, his first commercially published book, in which he care goody avoided Yeatsian amative self-expression - the poems were short, untitled, and slightly cryptic. Auden soon gained fame as a leftist intellectual. He showed interest in Marx and Freud and he wrote passionately on neighborly problems, among others in LOOK, STRANGER! (1936). However, by 1962 he argued that art and regime were best kept apart, stating... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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