W.H. Auden
"September 1939" author
W.H.
Auden was an Anglo-American poet, one of the most influential English-language poets of the twentieth century.
Born in England, he became an American citizen in 1946.
His work ranges from technically virtuosic formal verse to accessible political commentary. "September 1, 1939" and "Funeral Blues" remain among his most quoted poems.
- interwar period1918 to 1939
- loveIntense fond attachment
- mortalityState of eventual death
- World War IISecond global military conflict
- psychoanalysisTreatment via unconscious exploration
Seamus Heaney · modernity · Christianity · libretto · spirituality · cabaret · war · human suffering · love poem · Marxism · political upheaval · ethics · Cold War era · Oxford · existentialism · Romanticism · emigration · alienation
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W.H. AudenAllen Ginsberg
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