Auden

Twentieth-century British poet

Auden (Wystan Hugh Auden, 1907–1973) was an Anglo-American poet whose work spanned lyric verse, political commentary, and religious meditation.

His name often appears as shorthand for a certain mid-twentieth-century literary sensibility—formally dexterous, intellectually serious, morally engaged: very Auden.

Lines like "We must love one another or die" entered the cultural vocabulary.

poet

Hugh

Masculine given name

Anglo-AmericanBritish and American combined
modernistAdvocate of experimental forms
verseMetered poetic passage

stanza · poetry · Oxford · Britten · elegy · sonnet · villanelle · ballad · laureate · collected

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Britten

"Peter Grimes" creator

HockneyEnglish pop artist
BerlinGermany's largest city
cabaretLive entertainment venue

Stravinsky · emigre · collaboration · libretto · opera

themes

anxiety

Persistent apprehensive distress

historyRecord of past events
loveIntense fond attachment
mortalityState of eventual death

politics · Christianity · psychoanalysis · Freud · Marx · landscape · isolation · commitment · doubt · faith

works

Caliban

Monstrous enslaved being

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Britten

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