W. H. Auden (1907-1973) from Five Songs, Musée des Beaux Arts, The Unknown Citizen LINKS The Academy of American Poets - Literary Exhibits: W.H. Auden http://www.poets.org/lit/POET/whauden.htm This site provides a brief biography of Auden, a selected bibliography, and the texts of several of his poems. W.H. Auden (1907 - 73) http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/auden.htm This site, maintained by Professor Eiichi Hishikawa at Kobe University, Japan, contains a biographic sketch of Auden, a bibliography, texts of several Auden poems, and a link to similar pages for other twentieth century poets. BIOGRAPHY W. H. Auden (1907–1973) A poet, playwright, translator, librettist, critic, and editor, Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York, England, son of a medical officer and a nurse. He attended Oxford from 1925 to 1928, then taught, traveled, and moved from faculty to faculty of several universities in the United States (where he became a naturalized citizen in 1946). He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for his collection The Age of Anxiety, an expression he coined to describe the 1930s. While his early writing exhibited Marxist sympathies and reflected the excitement of new Freudian psychoanalytic thought, he later embraced Christianity and produced sharply honed verse in the rhyme and meter of traditional forms.